Facialities: Bloomsbury Book Series on Face Studies
Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face
Series Editor(s):David H. Jones,David Turner,Garthine Walker,Mark Bradley,Patricia Skinner,Suzannah BiernoffIn this series, historians of all periods, experts in visual culture and literary scholars explore the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, and in particular the issue of facial difference, disfigurement, beauty and ‘ugliness’. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet have been neglected as a subject of study in themselves outside of the cognitive sciences and some work on aesthetics of the body. Titles in the series will range across themes such as approaching the difficult history of disfigurement, how facial difference and disability intersect, the changing norms of appearance relating to the face and other features such as the hair (facial and otherwise), violence targeted at the face, and the reception and representation of the face in art and literature.
