Decorated Skin: A World Survey of Body Art
By Karl Groning.
Description
"A beautiful and celebratory volume."—Explorer's Journal Since earliest times, humans 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 cultura...
ISBN(s)
0500283281, 9780500283288
