Liberale da Verona, ‘Scene from a Novella’ (detail). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The face is one of the most intense sites for the expression and communication of emotion. That intensity generates millions of representations of the face, in a range of textual, dramatic, visual, cinematic and material forms. This collaboratory will bring together research on representations of the expressive face, from the medieval to the modern world, from illumination and early print culture through to contemporary graphic novels, non-fiction and cinema. Continue reading
Melbourne Portrait Group 