Decorated Skin: A World Survey of Body Art
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500283281 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-22 |
| Language | : | German |
DESCRIPTION:
"Body Modification book" according to SkyClan8. Decorated Skin: A World Survey of Body Art by Karl Groning, is an excellent book. Well researched, well illustrated, and very informative. I highly recommend it as a basic book for any library on Body Art and Body Modification.. Very interesting I bought this book to use as a reference for a novel I'm writing. Not only is it informative but the photos are gorgeous.. Awesome book!!!!! This book as totally complete, bursting with useful information, explanations and great pictures. I would highly recommend this book to everyone!
Karl Gröning, the originator and editor of Decorated Skin, owns a vast archive of pictures, assembled from all over the world. . He is an acclaimed book designer and was Art Director of Axel Springer Verlag in Germany for more than twenty-three years
This unrivaled collection of striking photographs traces more than ten thousand years of cultural history—from the body painting of stone-age peoples to the self-inflicted piercing of punks and the enduring image of the carnival clown in modern industrial society—illustrating an art form that is finding new relevance in the world of today. "A beautiful and celebratory volume."—Explorer's Journal Since earliest times, humans have decorated their skin in endless ways and for fascinating reasons. To set the plates in context, a distinguished team of art historians, ethnologists, and archaeol
-- Explorer's Journal. A beautiful and celebratory volume