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A book of animal masks.
Author : Stephanie Trelogan
Publisher : Intervisual/Piggy Toes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Forest animals
ISBN : 9781581177909
A book of animal masks.
Author : Carol Gelber
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1993-03
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ISBN : 9781562947651
Readers go beyond the exhibits they see in museums to learn about subjects that range from anthropology to geology.
Author : Carl Lindahl
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780878059683
A study of Cajun Mardi Gras and its traditional mask making
Author : Peter Valat
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Masks
ISBN : 9781851030552
Each mask has a description of the character portrayed.
Author : Frances Tinker
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1931
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Guided reading
ISBN :
Author : N. Ross Crumrine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
This collection of papers, presented at the 42nd International Congressof Americanists, considers the interplay between the mask, the maskbearer, and the audience. The studies concentrate on the idea ofmasking as a transformational ritual in which the human actor istransformed into a being of another order. The authors use examplesfrom various cultures and in their analyses argue for particular setsof relationships as being crucial to the understanding of the mask.
Author : Gary Edson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1476612331
For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.
Author : Joseph Gregor
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486417936
Informative pictorial survey of many authentic cover-ups worn around the world over a wide range of historical periods. Images of a Kwakiutl dance mask of wood and skin from British Columbia, a terra cotta mask from ancient Athens, an 18th-century porcelain Harlequin mask, a Javanese demon's mask of wood, a cloth mask embroidered with pearls from Cameroon, and many more. Invaluable to anthropologists and theatrical groups; of great interest to art lovers.
Author : Gennifer Weisenfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226816443
"Gas Mask Nation explores Japanese daily life during the widespread culture of civil defense that emerged through fifteen years of war, beginning with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and only ending with Japan's decisive defeat in WWII. This fifteen-year period involved intense social mobilization and the militarization of citizens. As in nearly every war since the invention of the airplane, surveillance, secrecy, and physical safety became visual symbols of national preparedness and anxiety. Everybody was vulnerable, always. And everybody had a role to play. Prevailing scholarship tends to portray the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Weisenfeld claims otherwise: while not denying the horrors of war, she shows that pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Even amidst the fear, tasty caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to futuristic wartime weapons. Gas Mask Nation examines the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable culture of civil air defense through a diverse range of art works and media including experimental and documentary photographs, newsreels, popular magazine illustrations, advertising, cartoons, and state propaganda"--