Returns of the Sacred: Considerations on Morality in Artistic Representation of the Face
Abstract
The face and his representation have turned into a problem which deals with moral and ethical aspects nowadays, where the visual arts have found their way with the intention of experimenting from the parameters of the aesthetics their possibilities of representation.
This article tries to approach the moral and ethical problems of the identity from a historical psychology, looking through some of the representative possibilities of the face in painting and photography where we can find us with returns of the sacred, symbolic values which propose us remembering principles and responsibilities.
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