A Measure of Perfection

A Measure of Perfection
Author: Charles Colbert
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780807846735

Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developmen