Publisher's Synopsis
The authors explore the parallel development of celebrity and surveillance portraiture in the relation to the 19th century belief in physiognomy. The use of portraits to identify offenders even reached the suffragette movement.
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The authors explore the parallel development of celebrity and surveillance portraiture in the relation to the 19th century belief in physiognomy. The use of portraits to identify offenders even reached the suffragette movement.
ISBN: | 9781855143098 |
Publisher: | National Portrait Gallery |
Imprint: | National Portrait Gallery |
Pub date: | 30 Jun 2001 |
DEWEY: | 778.9209034 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Number of pages: | 240 |
Weight: | -1g |