How things look. The “Physiognomic Illusion”
What we call the ‘expressive’ character of sounds, colours or shapes basically arises from nothing else but our own ‘physiognomic’ reactions to those things. This direct primitive signification is difficult to account for. All around us, we see our own face reflected in things. We find this phenomen...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/magli.pdf |