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Masks: The Art of Expression
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Masks exert a powerful fascination. Masking is a near-universal phenomenon, but the uses and meanings of masks vary greatly between cultures. A mask may reveal or transfigure as often as it conceals.
Masks covers eight principal areas: Africa, Oceania, Latin America, the Northwest coast of America, Japan, Classical Greece and Rome, Egypt and Europe. The disparate masking traditions of these cultures are discussed, but the emphasis remains on the masks themselves. They are made of every kind of material: wood, precious metals, cloth, bark, basketry, papier mache, leaves, feathers. Many are beautiful, others disturbing or even grotesque. The great variety of masks and masking traditions is clearly brought out in this wide-raning survey.
With 150 colour photographs.
Masks exert a powerful fascination. Masking is a near-universal phenomenon, but the uses and meanings of masks vary greatly between cultures. A mask may reveal or transfigure as often as it conceals.
Masks covers eight principal areas: Africa, Oceania, Latin America, the Northwest coast of America, Japan, Classical Greece and Rome, Egypt and Europe. The disparate masking traditions of these cultures are discussed, but the emphasis remains on the masks themselves. They are made of every kind of material: wood, precious metals, cloth, bark, basketry, papier mache, leaves, feathers. Many are beautiful, others disturbing or even grotesque. The great variety of masks and masking traditions is clearly brought out in this wide-raning survey.
With 150 colour photographs.
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