ISBN: 9780500204207

An illuminating and authoritative survey of body art by a world expert on the subjectThis informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging history of body art, from its expression o… Meer...

An illuminating and authoritative survey of body art by a world expert on the subjectThis 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. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Art,Design & Photography>Art Crit,Theory>Art Crit,Theory, Thames & Hudson Core >1<

2014, ISBN: 9780500204207

Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has pr… Meer...

Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has proliferated in an unprecedented way, borrowing motifs and practices from many different traditions. What is it that these new and borrowed body arts do, and what do they tell us about the global culture that we now inhabit? 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 cultural identity; their associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitive movement and in the work of contemporary artists. More than 180 illustrations chronicle the diversity of body arts, from painting and scarification to footbinding, Russian prison tattoos, Harlem drag balls and the inked designs worn by celebrities such as Tupac Shakur and David Beckham. For everyone with any interest in the subject, Body Art offers an intelligent celebration of this quintessentially human art form. Books Nicholas Thomas|Paperback|Thames & Hudson Ltd|13/10/2014, Thames & Hudson Ltd<

ISBN: 9780500204207

Paperback, [PU: Thames & Hudson Ltd], The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present., A… Meer...

Paperback, [PU: Thames & Hudson Ltd], The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present., Art History, Graphic Art, Body Art & Tattooing, Art Treatments & Subjects, Cosmetics, Hair & Beauty<