Marks civilization artistic transformations (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Third printing. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Published by Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 1988. 280 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Body piercing, scarification, tattooingfor thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This remarkable collection of essays, photographs, and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies. Marks of Civilization grew out of a symposium entitled "Art of the Body" held at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 1980s. Contributors encompass the fields of anthropology, sociology, art history, archaeology, and folklore. The geographical and historical perspectives are from Europe and Euro- America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Pacific Basin (Asia, Oceania, and Native America). The book's text and photographs acknowledge body art as a meaningful part of human behavior. What dominates throughout is the recognition of artistic potency, mysterious or commonplace, that is a part of marking the body.; 8.5 X 1 X 11 inches; 280 pages.…

Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut. 1988 - Rubin - TB - h4.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. Second printing. 280pp, profusely illustrated with some in colour. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 4to. Covers shelf worn, rubbed all round edges and joints, with a reading crease along the spine. Text block edges soft. Internally neat. clean, bright and tight.…

279 pages, 31 color and 191 b/w photographs, 38 drawings, 3 maps. Soft cover ed. This volume, a fitting epilogue to the brilliant career of its editor and principal contributor, Arnold Rubin, is a seminal study on tattoo and scarification in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Native America, and contemporary Euro-America. The outgrowth of a 1983 UCLA symposium, "Art of the Body", moderated by Dr. Rubin, and his research, fieldwork and passion for this extraordinary form of artistic expression, this volume is the first cross-cultural effort to examine tattooing and scarification. Among the contributors and James Faris, Marla Berns, Henry Drewal, Susan Vogel, Adrienne Kaeppler and Aldona Jonaitis.…

279 pp.; c.350 colour & b/w illus. Contains 18 essays on tattoos and body scarification, maps, biblio. Based on the symposium 'Art of the Body' held at UCLA. Los Angeles, 1995 (1988) Reprint. Pbk. KEYWORDS: 001 General & Miscellaneous 039 Tatoeage/scarificaties etc.

Softcover. Zustand: gut. 1988. Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body In englischer Sprache. pages.

Mit einigen hundert Fotografien und Zeichnungen in Farbe und s/w, Im Text und auf Tafeln. O-Softcover. 280 S. 4°. Umschlag mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren, ansonsten sehr gut. Ein bekanntes Standardwerk mit zahlreichen Beiträgen von etlichen der bekanntesten damaligen Forschern auf diesem Sachgebiet.