Face to Face with Johann Caspar Lavater

Sibylle Erle

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German Literature and Culture Studies Visual Culture and Art Theory Philosophy and Historical Thought

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Abstract At the end of the eighteenth century, Europe‐wide debates on the nature of man and the practice of interpreting visual artefacts centred on physiognomy, and specifically on one extraordinary, luxuriously illustrated work which claimed to map out how character could precisely be read in the human face: Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy .

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1998The economy of character: novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning 1973Art, Perception, and Reality 1982Physiognomy in the European Novel 2006Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture 1993The Physiognomical Portraits of Johann Caspar Lavater 1986The Power of a Thousand Eyes: Johann Caspar Lavater's Science of Physiognomical Perception 1999Das Kunstkabinett des Johann Caspar Lavater 1987Likeness in Early Romantic Portraiture

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