Decorated Skin
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Decorated Skin A World Survey of Body Art Edited by Carl Gröning With texts by Ferdinand Anton ISBN 9780500283288 32.50 x 25.00 cm Paperback with flaps 256pp 418 Illustrations, 378 in colour plus 4 maps First published 2001 Since earliest times, humans have decorated their skin in endless ways and for fascinating reasons. In a wealth of astonishing illustrations, Decorated Skin presents some of the finest examples of body art past and present, taken from all over the world. A distinguished team of art historians, ethnologists and archaeologists provide enlightening commentaries to set the images in context, documenting the development of an extraordinarily broad spectrum of body art, and providing a panorama of body decoration throughout the ages.