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Body Art by Not Available (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson
ISBN-100500204209
ISBN-139780500204207
eBay Product ID (ePID)201577712
Product Key Features
Book TitleBODYART
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicBODYART & Tattooing, History / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorNot Available
Book SeriesWorld of Art Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-931271
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsReveals the historical origins of many designs you might see while walking around the giant body art gallery that is the contemporary western city.
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal391.65
SynopsisThis informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging history of body art, from its expression of tribal affinities and cultural identity to its role in theatricality, criminality, and beautifying the body, as well as its influence on contemporary artists. Seven thematic chapters explore the extraordinary diversity of body arts practiced worldwide, both past and present. These range from the role of body art in traditional societies around the world, from Nigeria to Amazonia, Samoa, and New Guinea and from the past through the twentieth century. The theatricality of body is considered in a range of stages including the masquerades in West Africa, the Japanese Noh theater, the drag balls of Harlem, and the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. Later chapters explore themes of beauty and the association of tattoos with the socially marginal, before moving to the revival in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries of body art as a means of expressing individual and cultural identity as demonstrated in the "modern primitive" movement, performance art, and celebrity tattoo culture. A wealth of illustrations reflects the many manifestations of body art, including tattooing, piercing, scarification, masquerade, hairstyles, performance art, and more., Body art is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. Today, in almost any major city worldwide, you will encounter tattoos, piercings, henna painting and elaborate hairstyles. In recent years, body art has proliferated in an unprecedented way, borrowing motifs and practices from many different traditions. What is it that new and borrowed body arts do, and what do they tell us about the global culture that we now inhabit? Anthropologist and art historian Nicholas Thomas explores these questions and many more in this wide-ranging survey of body arts from prehistoric origins to the present. He illuminates their role in expressing personal and cultural identity; their longstanding associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitive movement and the work of contemporary artists such as Marc Quinn and Rebecca Belmore. More than 180 illustrations chronicle the extraordinary diversity of body arts, from Australian and African traditions of painting and scarification to Chinese footbinding, Russian prison tattoos, Harlem drag balls and the inked designs worn by celebrities such as Tupac Shakur and David Beckham. For anyone with a personal or professional interest in the subject, Body Art offers a timely and intelligent celebration of this quintessentially human art form.
LC Classification NumberGN419.15
