This informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging
history of body art, from its expression of tribal affinities and
cultural identity to its role in theatricality, criminality, and
beautifying the body, as well as its influence on contemporary
artists.
Seven thematic chapters explore the extraordinary diversity of
body arts practiced worldwide, both past and present. These range
from the role of body art in traditional societies around the
world, from Nigeria to Amazonia, Samoa, and New Guinea and from the
past through the twentieth century. The theatricality of body is
considered in a range of stages including the masquerades in West
Africa, the Japanese Noh theater, the drag balls of Harlem, and the
Sydney Mardi Gras parade. Later chapters explore themes of beauty
and the association of tattoos with the socially marginal, before
moving to the revival in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries
of body art as a means of expressing individual and cultural
identity as demonstrated in the modern primitive movement,
performance art, and celebrity tattoo culture.
A wealth of illustrations reflects the many manifestations of
body art, including tattooing, piercing, scarification, masquerade,
hairstyles, performance art, and more. "
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