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Decorated Skin: A World Survey of Body Art Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 256 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Since earliest times. that perfecting a have decorated their skin in endless ways and for fascinating reasons. Laden with cultural messages and imbued with aesthetic experience. body decoration is the ultimate form of self-expression in which the artists create for themselves a second skin as a testimony to the society in which they live. as a mirror of their own individuality . and as a reflection of the supernatural. This unrivaled collection of striking photographs traces more than ten thousand years of cultural history-from the body painting of stone-age peoples to the self-inflicted piercing of punks and the enduring image of the carnival clown in modern industrial society-illustrating an art form that is finding new relevance in t...Read More

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  • ASDA

    The decoration of the human body is one of the oldest art forms known to man. This volume presents some of the finest examples of body painting scarring and tattooing past and present from all over the globe. Pictures accompany commentaries of established anthropologists and scientists.

  • Blackwell

    This unrivaled collection of striking photographs traces more than ten thousand years of cultural history--from the body painting of stone-age peoples to the self-inflicted piercing of punks and the enduring image of the carnival clown in modern...

  • Pickabook

    Carl Groning, Ferdinand Anton

  • 0500283281
  • 9780500283288
  • Karl Groning, Ferdinand Anton
  • 5 November 2001
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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