Configural information has long been considered important for face recognition. However, traditional portraiture instruction encourages the artist to use a 'generic' configuration for faces rather than attempting to replicate precise feature positions. We examine this intriguing paradox with two tasks designed to test the extent to which configural information is incorporated into face represen...

Abstract The nineteenth century represents a formative period for the development of historical consciousness in Britain, with texts and, increasingly, images shaping perceptions past. This article examines how Stuart history was interpreted and experienced, through series genre paintings King Charles I his family. It explores Anthony van Dyck's depiction politicized domesticity royal portraitu...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the portraits graduates who have learned English as a foreign language on one hand, while maintaining Indonesian and local languages other. This study draws poststructuralist notions identity learning uses portraiture lens emphasising contexts voice. data from semi-structured interviews focus group five key participants relating their contextual back...

This essay engages with Amin Samman's incisive 2019 text, History in Financial Times, which unfolds a philosophy of history for contemporary “financial times.” I turn first to concept the strange loops financial history, and so historical initiated by subprime crisis 2008. Then, add portraiture idea history. Borrowing metaphor from Oscar Wilde's The Picture Dorian Gray, trace oscillating appear...

Embracing the manifesto for a ‘live’ sociology, I included portraiture into research design of an ethnographic study women’s lived experiences French suburbia and organised exhibition entitled Habitantes d’Hier d’Aujourd’hui: exposition sociologique et photographique. This was personal project in neighbourhood my youth motivated by intention to shine some light on invisible stories women living...