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Wilder mann : the image of the savage / Charles Fréger.

Title
Wilder mann : the image of the savage / Charles Fréger.
Author
Fréger, Charles.
Publication
Stockport : Dewi Lewis Pub., 2012.

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Description
271 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Each year, throughout Europe, from Scotland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Italy, from Portugal to Greece via France, Switzerland and Germany, people literally put themselves into the skin of the 'savage', in masquerades that stretch back centuries.
Subject
  • Fréger, Charles
  • Masquerades > Europe > Pictorial works
  • Paganism > Europe > Rituals > Pictorial works
  • Folklore > Europe > Pictorial works
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Wild men in art
  • Paganism in art
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Wild at heart, foreword by Robert McLiam Wilson -- Plates -- The Wild Man and the tradition of mask in Europe -- Description of characters and groups.
ISBN
  • 1907893237 (hbk.)
  • 9781907893230 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 792748326
  • SCSB-10707894
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library