Research Catalog

Title

The book of skin / Steven Connor.

Author

Connor, Steven, 1955-

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

304 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Book of Skin explores the amazingly varied meanings of human skin in Western culture from classical times to the here and now. Every aspect and nuance of skin in history is to be found here: its poetry as well as its pathology, the chromatics of its pigmentation, the destructive rage exercised against it in violent fantasies, the shivering titillations of itch, the intensities and attenuations of erotic touch, blushing, suntanning, tattooing, flaying, stigmata, scarification, moles, birthmarks, massage, ointments and aromatics."--Jacket.

Subject

• Culture
• Skin
• Skin > Social aspects
• Skin > History
• Human skin color
• Human body > Social aspects
• Skin Pigmentation

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Originally published in Great Britain in 2004 by Reaktion Books, London"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pregression: a skin that walks -- Complexion -- Exposition -- Disfiguring -- Impression -- Stigmata -- Off-colour -- Unction -- Aroma -- Itch -- The light touch.

ISBN

• 0801488931 (paper)
• 0801488966 (paper)

LCCN

^^2003055660

OCLC

• 52798678
• SCSB-11048697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library