Decorated Skin
A World Survey of Body Art
Edited by Carl Gröning
With texts by Ferdinand Anton
Stefan Eisenhofer
Eberhard Fischer
Ernst Fuchs
Rosel Grassmann
Susanne Haas
Jürgen Lotz
Hanns Peter
Elizabeth Reichel-Dolmatoff
Barbara Rusch
Martin Saller
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| ‘Astounding and fascinating . . . deeply researched’ | | – International Herald Tribune |
| ‘Magnificent’ | | – Independent on Sunday |
| ‘The images are well chosen, well printed and beautifully photographed’ | | – The Times Literary Supplement |
Since earliest times, humans have decorated their skin in endless ways and for fascinating reasons. In a wealth of astonishing illustrations, Decorated Skin presents some of the finest examples of body art past and present, taken from all over the world.
A distinguished team of art historians, ethnologists and archaeologists provide enlightening commentaries to set the images in context, documenting the development of an extraordinarily broad spectrum of body art, and providing a panorama of body decoration throughout the ages.
Also of interest:
Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley
The Human Body: Image and Emotion |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500283281 | | ISBN-13 978-0500283288 | | | | 32.5 x 25.0 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 256pp | | 418 illustrations, 378 in colour,plus 4 maps | | First published 2001 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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