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Masks, Transformation, and Paradox (Paperback, New ed): A.David Napier

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox (Paperback, New ed)

A.David Napier; Foreword by Rodney Needham

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Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greecein particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgonprovide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 1987
First published: 1987
Authors: A.David Napier
Foreword by: Rodney Needham
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 312
Edition: New ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04533-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion
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LSN: 0-520-04533-5
Barcode: 9780520045330

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