Physical Expression: Its Modes and Principles (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Francis Warner

9780365215806: Physical Expression: Its Modes and Principles (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365215805 ISBN 13: 9780365215806

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Unlocking the language of the body through movement .

This work shows how physical expression reveals mind and life, using clear analysis of posture, gesture, and action to read the signs behind behavior.

This edition explains how expressions arise from nutrition, growth, and brain activity, and how movements can be measured and understood. With fifty-one illustrations, it guides readers from basic principles to practical descriptions used in biology, medicine, and art. The author presents a method for analyzing postures and movements, illustrating how signs of nerve-centre activity show in the body and face. It is written to help scientists, students, and readers interested in how the body communicates the inner workings of mind and life.

See how movement and posture express the forces at work inside the body.
Learn concrete methods to analyze and describe postures and gestures.
Explore how head, face, hands, and voice convey emotion and thought.
Discover connections between nutrition, growth, and kinetic function.

Ideal for readers of science, medicine, and art who want to understand how expression reveals inner processes and how to study them with practical methods.

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