Body decoration
Subtitle: a world survey of body art.
Publisher: Vendome Press; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Body marking; Body painting
Description: "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. To set the plates in context, a distinguished team of art historians, ethnologists and archaeologists has provided enlightening commentaries which document the development of an extraordinarily broad spectrum of body painting, tattooing and scarring techniques."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.        ) and index.