Body Art (World of Art) /anglais - Couverture souple

Thomas, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500204209 ISBN 13 : 9780500204207

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has proliferated in an unprecedented way, borrowing motifs and practices from many different traditions. What is it that these new and borrowed body arts do, and what do they tell us about the global culture that we now inhabit? Nicholas Thomas explores these questions and many more in this wide- ranging survey of body arts from prehistoric origins to the present. He illuminates their role in expressing cultural identity; their associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitive movement and in the work of contemporary artists. More than 180 illustrations chronicle the diversity of body arts, from painting and scarification to footbinding, Russian prison tattoos, Harlem drag balls and the inked designs worn by celebrities such as Tupac Shakur and David Beckham. For everyone with any interest in the subject, Body Art offers an intelligent celebration of this quintessentially human art form.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Humanity
Chapter 2 Society
Chapter 3 Theatricality
Chapter 4 Beauty
Chapter 5 Criminality
Chapter 6 Identity
Afterword
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Biographie de l'auteur :

Nicholas Thomas was born in Sydney in 1960. He visited the Pacific Islands first in 1984 to research his PhD thesis on the Marquesas Islands, and later worked in Fiji and New Zealand. He has written many acclaimed historical and anthropological books, but also collaborated in exhibition and book experiments with artists including John Pule and Mark Adams. His many books include Entangled Objects (1991), a celebrated exploration of the changing lives of things in the Pacific; Oceanic Art (1995), an innovative survey; Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook (2003); and Islanders: the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010) which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize. Thomas's exhibitions have included Skin Deep: a History of Tattooing for the National Maritime Museum, London, and Cook's Sites, for the Museum of Sydney (both of which toured extensively) as well as Kauage: Artist of Papua New Guinea and several other exhibitions at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, where he has been Director since 2006. Nicholas Thomas lives in London with his partner Annie Coombes, and their son.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500204209
• ISBN 13: 9780500204207
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208