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Trumble, Angus A. G. was born on October 6, 1964 in Melbourne, Australia. Arrived in United States, 2003. Son of Peter Campbell and Helen Borthwick Trumble.
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It has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century 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, from 18th and 19th 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 smile-the 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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The English Victorians' lushly illustrative, sen- sual and romantic art borrowed themes from classical literature, ancient mythology and morality tales to explore concerns like infant mortality, divorce, burial and cremation.
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SMILE, A COMPLETE INDEX OF THE DIGIT In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from cave art to Picasso’s Guernica, from Van Dyck’s and Rubens’s winning ways with gloves to the longstanding French taste for tapering digits. But Trumble also asks intriguing questions about the finger in general: How do fingers work, and why do most of us have five on each hand? Why do we bite our nails? This witty, odd, and fascinating book is filled with diverse anecdotes about the silent language of gesture, the game of love, the spinning of balls, superstitions relating to the severed fingers of thieves, and systems of computation that were used on wharves and in shops, markets, granaries, and warehouses throughout the ancient Roman world. Side by side with historical discussions of rings and gloves and nail polish are meditations on the finger’s essential role in writing, speech, sports, crime, law, sex, worhsip, memory, scratching politely at eighteenth-century French doors (instead of crudely knocking), or merely satisfying an itch—and, of course, in the eponymous show of contempt.
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Trumble, Angus A. G. was born on October 6, 1964 in Melbourne, Australia. Arrived in United States, 2003. Son of Peter Campbell and Helen Borthwick Trumble.
Bachelor in Fine Arts and History with honors, University Melbourne, Australia, 1985. Master of Arts, University Melbourne, Australia, 1992. Master of Arts, New York University, New York, 1995.
Aide Office Governor Victoria, Melbourne, 1987—1991. Resident tutor fine arts Trinity College, 1991—1993. Associate curator European art Art Gallery South Australia, Adelaide, 1996—1998, curator European art, 1998—2003.
Curator paintings and sculpture Yale Center British Art, New Haven, since 2003. Member advisory board Art and Australia, Sydney, 1998—2002. President senior common room Trinity College, Melbourne, 1991—1992.
Consultant in field.
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Member of Yale Club, Athenæum, London.