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| 153.6 MER Consciousness and the acquisition of language | 153.6 MER Consciousness and the acquisition of language | 153.6 WOLF Everybody's guide to people watching | 153.69 TRU A brief history of the smile | 153.7 DEB Six frames : for thinking about information | 153.7 LEV Totality and infinity : an essay on exteriority | 153.7 MAT Foundations of perception |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Every smile is the product of physical processes common to all humans. But since the dawn of civilization, the upward movement of the muscles of the face has carried a bewildering range of meanings. Supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha, yet the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and American slang equated ""smiling"" with drinking whisky.In this book, the author deftly combines art, poetry, history, and biology into an intriguing portrait of the many nuances of the smile. Elegantly illustrating his points with emblematic works of art, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings to Japanese woodblock prints, Trumble explores the meanings of smiling in a variety of cultures and contexts. Effortlessly mingling erudition, wit, and personal anecdote, Trumble weaves a seamless interdisciplinary tapestry, bringing his expertise as a writer, historian, and thinker to bear on the art of smiling in this warm and perceptive work.
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