Faces of a face

The book focuses on face and portraiture regarding philosophical, aesthetical, cognitive, and anthropological attitudes. It represents the author's research on portrait recognition. She shows 11 portraits to study participants, while monitoring them with an eye tracker.

The book focuses on the phenomenon of a face in philosophical, cognitive, and aesthetical context. Text is divided into two main parts: the rst is considering the face as an object. The second part is about specic facets of the face and how faces are portrayed in portraits. The text focuses on the etymology of the term «face» and its semantic roots. It considers various uses of the word «face» in metaphors and the idea that through a metaphorical use of the word face, there is a link to human identity or personality. The second part of this book details portraits, their etymology and semantic roots, history and various functions in history. Regarding the various transformations of portraits and mainly the invention of photography, it also deals with the problem of the end, or death of a portrait.

Autorentext

Renáta Kisonová focuses on the problems of cognitive aesthetics and metaphysics. She studied philosophy at Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Trnava University. Her main research interest focuses on the problem of representing face on the portraits.

Inhalt

Face facial perception portraiture representation symbol death of portraiture context and meaning functions of portrait