Book Description
Body painting, decoration, depilation, mutilation, scarification around the world with examples from Australian Aboriginal cultures and social, sexual and religious associations (totemic, mourning, passage rites)
Author : Robert Brain
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Body painting, decoration, depilation, mutilation, scarification around the world with examples from Australian Aboriginal cultures and social, sexual and religious associations (totemic, mourning, passage rites)
Author : Victoria Ebin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Tattooing
ISBN :
Author : Victoria Ebin
Publisher : [London ; New York] : Thames and Hudson
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780500060087
Examines a variety of tattooing, scarification, painting and adornment techniques used in Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania since the eighteenth century with a discussion of body adornment in rituals and religion
Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802085689
Cultural sensibilities about tattooing are discussed within historical context and in relation to broader trends in body modification, such as cosmetic surgery, dieting, and piercing.
Author : Karl Gröning
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780500283288
Celebrates body decorations through color photographs and commentaries that describe the evolution of different practices throughout history and its role in specific special occasions.
Author : Anna-Catherine Boroughs
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Body image
ISBN :
Author : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1576876926
"In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin makes a persuasive case for the tattooed woman as an emblem of female self-expression." —Susan Faludi Bodies of Subversion is the first history of women’s tattoo art, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back into the nineteenth-century and includes many never-before-seen photos of tattooed women from the last century. Author Margot Mifflin notes that women’s interest in tattoos surged in the suffragist 20s and the feminist 70s. She chronicles: * Breast cancer survivors of the 90s who tattoo their mastectomy scars as an alternative to reconstructive surgery or prosthetics. * The parallel rise of tattooing and cosmetic surgery during the 80s when women tattooists became soul doctors to a nation afflicted with body anxieties. * Maud Wagner, the first known woman tattooist, who in 1904 traded a date with her tattooist husband-to-be for an apprenticeship. * Victorian society women who wore tattoos as custom couture, including Winston Churchill’s mother, who wore a serpent on her wrist. * Nineteeth-century sideshow attractions who created fantastic abduction tales in which they claimed to have been forcibly tattooed. “In Bodies of Subversion, Margot Mifflin insightfully chronicles the saga of skin as signage. Through compelling anecdotes and cleverly astute analysis, she shows and tells us new histories about women, tattoos, public pictures, and private parts. It’s an indelible account of an indelible piece of cultural history.” —Barbara Kruger, artist
Author : Carol Beckwith
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847834050
The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world’s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith and Fisher document the origins of these fashionable adornments as passed down through African tribal culture. Featured are portraits of the richly colored, detailed, and exquisite body paintings of the Surma, Karo, Maasai, Himba, and Hamar peoples, among others. Drawing from expeditions in the field and firsthand experiences with African peoples and cultures over the past thirty years and with more than 250 spectacular photographs, this is the definitive work on the expressiveness and imagination of African cultural painting of the human body.
Author : Theresa M. Winge
Publisher : Berg
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1847880231
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with subculture members, Body Style explores the subcultural body and its style within global culture. Body Style is the result of over eleven years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribalists, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skates, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies"--
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Tattooing
ISBN : 9780949753809