The Finishing Touch: Cosmetics through the Ages - Couverture rigide

Walker, Julian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712357521 ISBN 13 : 9780712357524

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2014

Synopsis

"The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself," according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and methods that women--and men--have used in the past to enhance or hold on to their looks. Julian Walker opens up a curious, sometimes uncomfortable history of the human need to look beautiful. He reveals dozens of the (occasionally desperate) ways in which people have tried to make themselves more attractive. The book tells a story of ingenuity and imagination, but also of self-delusion, trickery, and exploitation. Among the bizarre home remedies and grotesque commercial innovations featured are a face wash based on minced and boiled pigeons; bear's grease used as a hair conditioner; a recipe for horseradish stirred into sour milk to lighten a tan; an Anglo-Saxon prescription for cosmetic surgery; and ways to prevent mice from infesting elaborate wigs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julian Walker is an artist and writer who leads workshops at the British Library on literature, art, history, printing, and the English language. His previous publications include Team Talk: Sporting Words and Their Origins and Trench Talk: Words of the First World War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712357521
• ISBN 13: 9780712357524
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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