Full Description
Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space.
This comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the facial presence in urban space, which it is used to analyse in depth urban faces and facial representation in public art, monuments, memorials as well as memorial practices, including digital ones.
This innovative volume will interest PhD students and scholars in semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, as well as those working in urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.
Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1
2. Faces and facial presence in urban space: A literature review
3. A semiotic and cultural-geographical framework for the study of facial presence in the urban space
4. A typology of facial presence of the city
Part 2
5. Faces on the facades of Bologna, Italy: A semiotic inquiry into urban inscriptions
6. Sculpted faces: Face inscription in monuments and memorials
7. Facial practices: Faces in institutional and vernacular memorial practices
8. Digital Faces: The evolution of faces in digital memorial practices
9. Conclusions: Urban semiotics face to face
Index
