The Customized Body
Published on 12. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-85242-677-4 (ISBN)
Description
The most comprehensive review of body art ever assembled. Throughout history people have adorned and customized the body. Polhemus? text looks at this phenomenon from an anthropological perspective while Randall?s photographs touch all the bases - body painting, tattooing, piercing, corsets, scarring, hair, jewellery, masks and shoes - in graphic and dramatic style. A celebration of the most extraordinary, it also provokes us to think about the way we decorate, dress and adorn as we do.
Reviews / Votes
?Keep it on your coffee table? Cosmospolitan ?Starkly beautiful alongside ominously outrageous, the photos in The Customized Body make you pause on every page; whether you like what you see or not; because you have to look? Alabama Forum ?An utterly stunning book of mesmerising pictures and lucid, informative text - the cutting edge of contemporary art Fetish TimesMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 265 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-677-4 (9781852426774)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Housk Randall | Polhemus/Randal | Ted Polhemus
The Customized Body
Book
06/1997
Serpent's Tail
€39.80
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Persons
Ted Polhemus is a journalist and photographer. He is a widely-used consultant on youth marketing and style trends and is the author of Bodystyles, Streetstyle, Fashion & Anti-Fashion and Popstyles.