The 1885 book that graphed the human face into 81 expressions
Genevieve Stebbins built her 1885 acting manual on François Delsarte's method, charting nine brow positions against nine lid positions.
The Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression is an acting manual, first published in 1885, that set out to chart every movement a human body can make. Genevieve Stebbins, an American actress, wrote it after training under Steele MacKaye, who had studied in …
