The Book of Skin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801488962
Subjects: Popular Culture - General; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Body, Human; History; Human skin color; Skin; Social aspects; Sociology
First sentence: If the skin has always been pressing, it has never been so much in evidence as it seems to be today.
Description: "The Book of Skin explores the amazingly varied meanings of human skin in Western culture from classical times to the here and now. Every aspect and nuance of skin in history is to be found here: its poetry as well as its pathology, the chromatics of its pigmentation, the destructive rage exercised against it in violent fantasies, the shivering titillations of itch, the intensities and attenuations of erotic touch, blushing, suntanning, tattooing, flaying, stigmata, scarification, moles, birthmarks, massage, ointments and aromatics."--BOOK JACKET.