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The Customized Body

The Customized Body

by tedpolhemus (Author), HouskRandall (Author), Polhemus/Randal (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $27.32
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 120
 Edition: 2nd Revised edition
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 12 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1852426772
ISBN 13: 9781852426774

Media Reviews
?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 Times
Author Bio
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.