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A rather more artintensive than expected but informative and wellwritten review of what smiling has meant through various ages, with digressions into the musculature of smiling, a dash of the psychological research into smiles babiesare they manipulative little critters or just happy, and a cavalcade of amusing sidelights on English/European culture.
A quick amp easy read, Fascinating, love the art history tie ins, May not have been in the mood to read this type of book or the fact I never got a good interrupted stretch to read.
It never absorbed me fully, I would much rather have attended a lecture on the topic then read the book, I may try something else by this author but it is highly unlikely, This book examines the documentation of the smile throughout history, both through artistic representation and in scientific analysis, The author is an art historian and takes a very scholarly approach to the topic, examining primary texts and crucial sculptures, paintings and photographs.


At times the "Artspeak" was overwhelming, Mr. Trumble knows his stuff, but has a hard time making the information digestible to the average reader, The book is full of interesting trivia about dentistry and photography among many other covered topics, The chapter divisions seem random "Deceit", "Happiness",etc, and don't add to the A Brief History of the Smile's subject matter,I have to put this one back on the shelf, I got caught up in some other books and haven't looked at it in overweeks, That was fun would have enjoyed more illustrations, This book was a bit of a surprise, While I began with few assumptions about the book, after reading the introduction, I think I expected something a little bit more along the art historical line.
Despite the very art historical introduction, the book ended up delving into all kinds of random areas of interest.
While the book is definitely a valuable source of random knowledge vaguely pertaining to smiling, there were times when I got the feeling the author wasn't quite the expert he was portraying himself to be.
Admittedly, this might just be my skepticism towards any Western authors writing about Japan after taking a very cynical Japanese history class, but still.
In any event, it was a good quick read with interesting chapters on etymology, biology and, yes, art, For a book on smiles, though, it didn't produce as many as one could hope, If you're on the fence about this one, I'd skip it, Nothing earthshattering here. For me, there was a little too much emphasis on art history, Art is great and art history is interesting, but I was under the impression I'd be reading a book about the history of the SMILE, not some tunnelvision description of paintings.
This guy is really focused on Western European art, and to a few very specific countries at that, Ancient Greece is cool, but it's not the only place that existedin fact and I'm not sure where I got this idea from.
. . I thought that most people who were alive inBC where living somewhere besides Greece, The author also says "people" when he really means MEN or really means WOMEN, Especially when you're talking in a historical context, the distinction matters: strict gender roles and codes defined completely different modes of being and different lives for men amp women.
It would've been more clear if he had more closely stated the facts of it, . .

There is some very intriguing information in this book, but I feel like he moves on from it all too quickly.
While a couple pages are given to smiling in babies, I think you could make an entire book about the subject.
He only barely touches on the surface of the primate origins of smiling, and the relation of smiling to laughing.
Likewise, he gives one or two sentences over to the use of the smile in totalitarian propaganda, Um, hello, author, that's very interesting and topical information and

I would really like to read more of a critique on that phenomenon.
Wasted opportunity Fun read well researched and contrary to the views of Mary Beard, who cited it in her book on Roman Humor While the chapters had some interesting points, their contents didn't always match the title for example the conclusionhappiness was about the smiles they create on corpses.
. . The majority of examples of smiles are taken from art, not behavioural examples or biology etc, as suggested by the blurb, Overall the book doesn't coincide with the title, nor am I convinced the author knows what he is talking about, being an art historian not a scientist.

I would recommend this book for general interest but not if you want to know the history of the smile.
I really wasn't interested to know that the cranial nerve numberis the one responsible for the smiling muscles.
Other than that, there were some some fun facts quite interesting: about Orlan, Mona Lisa, Italian renaissance paintings, Dutch paintings of the xvith century and hen groping boys yes, really, the most exciting part of the book, I swear.


Unfortunately everything lacked structure and it seemed presented in a somewhat chaotic mess, The author goes from art to dentists to religion to physiology and then back to art, The last two chapters of the book are focused only on plastic surgery and dentists, I was hoping to read more about the psychology behind the smile, let's say irony for example, or shyness, the smug face or other type of gestures that might resemble a smile.
If that's what you're also looking for, carry on, you won't find anything like that in this book, Interesting but meandering. sitelink wordpress. com/ This is the kind of book that leads you to make mental notes to find a biography of Maurice Bowra or reread Through the Looking Glass.
There are clues scattered throughout visual arts, literature, social history, and even language that can help us understand the changing message of the smile.
While the book. could certainly be edited to improve the organization, it's readability and quantity of information and analysis is a lot of fun.
Just finished this, which I read in between a few books so I took it rather piecemeal, by chapter.
I did like how the book was broken up check out the pic by chapter breakdown

Ive always fascinated with learning a bit more in detail about the things often right in front of our faces that we almost never think about.
Not gonna lie this took a bit for me to get into but I always finish a book a pick up.


Well shit, this touched base on cultural/artistic/physiology etc etc coupled with types of smiles again see chapter breakdown and their connotations.
I found the book and topic fascinating but weirdly kept wishing it was written by Bill Bryson, Bill wrote a book on the home and every goddamn inch of explaining the home structures and things within but somehow made it a store entertaining read.
I feel like his style would have kept me a bit more enamored and engaged the whole time,

It s was one of those books you really should be looking up a million things while you read it mostly art pieces but I didnt, so I about to not thoroughly understanding what I was reading as I went along in some parts.


Again, it wasnt bad but apparently Im a fangirl of Bill Bryson, So I decided to read a Bryson book next sitelinkMy wishlist, someday :D While this book became bogged down by the history of the smile in art, and at times made silly outdated references Ozzy and Tipper and then also at times sounded too scholarly, it was original and about an important subject that we take for granted.
We take for granted until we get Bell's Palsy! This book jumps a whole star for creativity, Some interesting historical and art narratives, Some interesting history but overall conjecture and speculation based on a lot of looking at portraits as far as I can tell.
Some loose tying in of the evolution of languages to how smiles/laughter/expression was immortalized in art but it seems like a stretch to present the vast speculation as truth.
A very thorough history of the smile with an emphasis on its representation in visual art, The chapter on lewdness was my favorite because it featuresth Century naughty Dutch memes and the great Celtic goddess the sheela.
It has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha, Yet, the Victorians thought of openmouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenthcentury English and American slang equated "smiling" with drinking whisky.
Every smile is the product of physical processes common to all humans, But since the dawn of civilization, the upward movement of the muscles of the face has carried a bewildering range of meanings.
In A Brief History of the Smile, Angus Trumble deftly weaves art, poetry, history and biology into an intriguing portrait of the many nuances of the human smile.
Elegantly illustrating his points with emblematic works of art, fromth andth century European paintings to Japanese woodblock prints, Trumble explores the meanings of smiling in a variety of cultures and contexts.
But he also asks key questions about the behavioral and psychological aspects of smiling: When and how in infancy does human smiling become a profound act of communication Is smiling unique to human beings How does smiling function to foster our attachments to each other Effortlessly mingling erudition, wit, and personal anecdote, Trumble weaves a seamless interdisciplinary tapestry.
An established talent in the art worlds of Europe, Europe and Australia, Trumble challenges our most deeply held assumptions about smiling.
In his analysis of Jusepe de Ribera's Girl Playing a Tambourine, Trumble explores the sinister side of the smilethe leer, the snarl, the lewd grin.
And from J. A. Ingres' portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, he extracts the implications of "public" smiling, the tension between decorum and beauty.
Trumble brings his expertise as a writer, historian and thinker to bear on the art of smiling in this charming and distinctive work.
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