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The “most entertaining surface on earth,” as the Late Enlightenment philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg claimed, is the human face. The face is attributed with so much expressiveness that it stands in for the whole person. In British English, for example, “face” is a colloquial term for “someone special,” someone who stands out—the band members of the Small Faces, later simply The Faces, chose their name self-confidently because they were all of small stature.
Faces are obsessively scanned visually and fixated medially in order to draw conclusions about what they express or what might be hidden behind them—without ever being able to completely overcome the dilemma of distinguishing between mask and face. Perhaps this also lies behind the interest in death masks: curiosity about a face without pretense. What is certain is that the many masks in public spaces in recent years have sparked a new interest in the face—and thus, also in...More
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The “most entertaining surface on earth,” as the Late Enlightenment philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg claimed, is the human face. The face is attributed with so much expressiveness that it stands in for the whole person. In British English, for example, “face” is a colloquial term for “someone special,” someone who stands out—the band members of the Small Faces, later simply The Faces, chose their name self-confidently because they were all of small stature.
Faces are obsessively scanned visually and fixated medially in order to draw conclusions about what they express or what might be hidden behind them—without ever being able to completely overcome the dilemma of distinguishing between mask and face. Perhaps this also lies behind the interest in death masks: curiosity about a face without pretense. What is certain is that the many masks in public spaces in recent years have sparked a new interest in the face—and thus, also in...More
