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I& #39;m starting a trickle-thread of images related to bodily communication & expression. Updates sporadic but hopefully delightful.
Mudras from an 11th-12th century Japanese scroll. (Source: http://bit.ly/3049GPH )">https://bit.ly/3049GPH&q...
An 1872 visualization of gesture space—I think of it as the "gesture globe." (Source: http://bit.ly/3bFziaM )">https://bit.ly/3bFziaM&q...
Figures from Roth& #39;s 1897 monograph on an Aboriginal (alternate) sign language used in Queensland, Australia. Love the fletching on those arrows! (Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/z74yavfk/ )">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/z74...
King Belshazzar and his feast crew reading—and pointing to—the writing on the wall (c. 1400). (Source: https://bit.ly/2OlwgAm )">https://bit.ly/2OlwgAm&q...
Detail of & #39;Pointing arm& #39; (1990), a painting by Kevin Wolff. Some serious self-referentiality. (Source: http://bit.ly/2PBe3zF )">https://bit.ly/2PBe3zF&q...
& #39;Movement of the hand, beating time& #39; (1884-6) by Eadweard Muybridge. One of 781 plates in his pioneering & #39;Animal Locomotion& #39; series. (Source: http://mo.ma/2OcVd1o )">https://mo.ma/2OcVd1o&q...
Japanese woodblock print from 1842 depicting eight shadow figures: crow, turtle, snail, man in hat, fox, rabbit, owl, and a sachihoko. (Source: http://bit.ly/3l1XgBp .)">https://bit.ly/3l1XgBp&q...
Detail of Leonardo& #39;s & #39;A Woman in a Landscape& #39; (c. 1517-8). Also known as the & #39;Pointing Lady& #39; sketch. (Source: http://bit.ly/3cIX5XR )">https://bit.ly/3cIX5XR&q...
Detail from a watercolor depicting Krishna and his family admiring (and pointing to) a solar eclipse (c. 1775-80). (Source: http://s.si.edu/2QiDQNf ).">https://s.si.edu/2QiDQNf&q...
Old fave: an illustration by Stuyvesant Van Veen for David Efron& #39;s & #39;Gesture and Environment& #39; (1941). I think of it as the & #39;gesture octopus& #39;, though technically only seven gestures depicted. (Source: http://bit.ly/3d2LNxW ).">https://bit.ly/3d2LNxW&q...
Images (watercolor and ink on palm leaf!) from a 14th century Nepali "manuscript of gestures." (Source: https://bit.ly/2Oj8zt2 )">https://bit.ly/2Oj8zt2&q...
Sketches of signs from Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) made by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894). SUN (left), ACROSS (top right), LONG TIME (bottom right). (Various sources, but see: https://si-siris.blogspot.com/2020/11/new-virtual-finding-aids-for-two.html).">https://si-siris.blogspot.com/2020/11/n...
More by Garrick Mallery: his 1880 typology of hand shapes used in Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL). (Source: https://bit.ly/3s1OHbz )">https://bit.ly/3s1OHbz&q...
