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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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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
  • Masks > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies
  • Masks > Psychological aspects > Cross-cultural studies
  • Masks > Psychological aspects
  • Masks > Social aspects
  • Ethnologie
  • Geschichte
  • Maske
  • Masks > Psychological aspects
  • Masks > Social aspects
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