the Visage, Voice and Void in Community: Art, Senses (e )Spaces of Contemporary Semiosis

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined as the human physical constitution in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society. This book will interest specialists in the fields of visual semiotics, languages of art, creative industries and cultural heritage, humanities and philosophy. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution but also in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society. Bridging the analogue and the digital, the face is examined step by step from multiple perspectives and analysed within a qualitative–semiotic framework. With art as the underlying paradigm, semiotics as the founding discipline, and the face as the subject of study, the author positions the face as a distinct landscape, offering the tools to study the metaphorical face and space as a panorama. Tracing historical conceptions of the face, along with the iconography and artefacts associated with it, the author follows an experimental and abductive methodology that culminates in a complex constellation of insights on the subject. This book will interest specialists in the fields of visual semiotics, languages of art, creative industries and cultural heritage, humanities, and philosophy.