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Masks and the art of expression
- Title
- Masks and the art of expression / edited by John Mack.
- Publication
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1994.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mack, John.
- Description
- 224 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Through revealing texts and an wirde range of dramatic illustrations, a team of experts discusses the disparate traditions surround masks in eight principal areas: Africa, Oceania, Latin America, the Pacific Northwest, Japan, classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, and Europe.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Études transculturelles.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-219) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : about face / John Mack -- African masking / John Mack -- Masks in Oceania / Dorota Czarkowska Starzecka -- Fictions and parodies : masquerade in Mexico and highland South America / Anthony Shelton -- Masks from the northwest coast of America / J.C.H. King -- Japanese masks : ritual and drama / Gregory Irvine -- Face value : the mask in Greece and Rome / Ian Jenkins -- Masks in ancient Egypt : the image of divinity / John H. Taylor -- The other within : masks and masquerades in Europe / Cesare Poppi.
- ISBN
- 0810936410
- 9780810936416
- LCCN
- 93048524
- OCLC
- ocm29565493
- 29565493
- SCSB-2073181
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library