Body Art: World of Art (E) - Brossura

Thomas, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0500204209 ISBN 13: 9780500204207

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2014

Riassunto

This 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.

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Learned and fertile. --The Independent

L'autore:

Nicholas Thomas was born in Sydney in 1960. He visited the Pacific Islands first in 1984 to research his PhD thesis on the Marquesas Islands, and later worked in Fiji and New Zealand. He has written many acclaimed historical and anthropological books, but also collaborated in exhibition and book experiments with artists including John Pule and Mark Adams. His many books include Entangled Objects (1991), a celebrated exploration of the changing lives of things in the Pacific; Oceanic Art (1995), an innovative survey; Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook (2003); and Islanders: the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010) which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize. Thomas's exhibitions have included Skin Deep: a History of Tattooing for the National Maritime Museum, London, and Cook's Sites, for the Museum of Sydney (both of which toured extensively) as well as Kauage: Artist of Papua New Guinea and several other exhibitions at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, where he has been Director since 2006. Nicholas Thomas lives in London with his partner Annie Coombes, and their son.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500204209
• ISBN 13: 9780500204207
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208