Introduction. The article is devoted to a retrospective review of the results anthropological study fine art sources, achieved by race research laboratory directed I.V. Perevozchikov that are currently ongoing. Materials and methods. Descriptions materials methods detailed in main articles team cited bibliography. Results discussion. new interdisciplinary direction anthropology; it carried out ...

How did Persian artists self-represent themselves within paintings in the absence of a tradition self-portraiture? beholders engage with style painting past? By addressing these fundamental questions study painting, The Making Artist Late Timurid Painting examines performative and self-representational abilities through detailed examination Cairo Bustan, earliest surviving illustrated...

Andil Gosine’s participant-driven performance Cane Portraiture aestheticizes the social history of indentured labourers in Caribbean. The work expands field relations surrounding discourse ‘coolitude’ – dissemination Indian labour during 19th century by redressing ‘coolie odyssey’. By doing so, Gosine suggests that pathos displacement produced odyssey’ moves through generations Caribbean diaspo...

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

How do representations of the face in portraits relate to the natural face, and how does the aesthetics of portraits relate to the aesthetics of faces in photographs? Here we investigate these questions with regard to the frontal face. Frontal faces are of particular interest because they are by far the most commonly studied type of face image in psychology, yet frontal portraits have been litt...