MARKS OF CIVILIZATION. Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
Los Angeles: 1988. 279 pages, 31 color and 191 b/w photographs, 38 drawings, 3 maps. Soft cover ed. Item #9486
This volume, a fitting epilogue to the brilliant career of its editor and principal contributor, Arnold Rubin, is a seminal study on tattoo and scarification in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Native America, and contemporary Euro-America. The outgrowth of a 1983 UCLA symposium, "Art of the Body", moderated by Dr. Rubin, and his research, fieldwork and passion for this extraordinary form of artistic expression, this volume is the first cross-cultural effort to examine tattooing and scarification. Among the contributors and James Faris, Marla Berns, Henry Drewal, Susan Vogel, Adrienne Kaeppler and Aldona Jonaitis.
Price: $60.00