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Masks and the art of expression

Mack, John. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0810936410
  • ISBN: 9780810936416
  • Physical Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: New York : H.N. Abrams, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-219) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Masks > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Masks > Psychological aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Masks > Psychological aspects.
Masks > Social aspects.
Genre:
Cross-cultural studies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library GT 1747 .M37 1994 281758 Stacks Available -

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