Physiognomy as theoretical background of proto-comics
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26370157
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Art at large
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORITA NAOKO 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (40295118)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MORIMOTO KOICHI 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (20182264)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 観相学 / 絵物語 / テプフェール / 語り |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our research aims to examine the influence of the old science called “physiognomy” on the foundation of a new narrative medium of the 19th century in Europe, later called “comic strips”. First, we investigated how a Genevan writer Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846), today considered as the father of the comic strip, made use of the concept of physiognomy to theorize his method of character drawing. The possibility of telling a story by drawing the same face hundreds of times was his great finding, but was also, we showed, a result of prevailing physiognomic interests in theoretical writings on painting, acting and rhetoric in the 17th and 18th centuries. We emphasized that the contradictory aspects of a facial expression, namely, the fact that a face can reveal or conceal the person’s inner life, were often explored in arts or in books of manners in the same period.
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Research Products
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[Book] マンガ視覚文化論2017
Author(s)
鈴木雅雄・中田健太郎（編）、森田直子（分担執筆）
Total Pages
414
Publisher
水声社
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