A Brief History of the Smile

A Brief History of the Smile
ISBN-10
1741140722
ISBN-13
9781741140729
Category
Portraits
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Author
Angus Trumble

Description

From the enlightened smile of the Holy Buddha to the lewd leer of the seventeenth century Dutch chicken groper, from the sociological to the scatological, Angus Trumble presents a uniquely readable and erudite insight into the cultural, physiological, artistic and literary history of that most universal of human expressions, the smile.;

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