Body art / Nicholas Thomas.

By: Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- [author.]
Language: English Series: World of art: Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014Description: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500204207Subject(s): Body art | Body marking | Body marking in art | Body piercing | Tattooing | Body art | Body marking | Body piercing | Tattooing | Body art | Kroppssmyckning | Piercing | TatueringDDC classification: 391.6/5 LOC classification: GN419.15 | .T46 2014
Contents:
Introduction -- Humanity -- Society -- Theatricality -- Beauty -- Criminality -- Identity -- Afterword.
Summary: Body art, practiced across the 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. Explore their role in expressing personal and cultural identity; their longstanding associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitabe movement and the work of contemporary artists such as Marc Quinn and Rebecca Belmore. The diversity of body arts is chronicled here: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.

Introduction -- Humanity -- Society -- Theatricality -- Beauty -- Criminality -- Identity -- Afterword.

Body art, practiced across the 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. Explore their role in expressing personal and cultural identity; their longstanding associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitabe movement and the work of contemporary artists such as Marc Quinn and Rebecca Belmore. The diversity of body arts is chronicled here: 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.

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