Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845207920 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Chico, CHOICE Magazine . B. Overall, they provide a new lens for understanding the human condition and identity, both the exotic and personal. B. This work provides an intriguing, interdisciplinary, multifaceted kaleidoscope focused on the universality of hair and its relationship to culture. These studies cover a wide spectrum, such as Hundu ritual tonsuring, African combing, salon styling, Islamic shaving, and aristocratic wigging
From heads, legs and underarms, to wigs and beards, and everything in between, the presentation, manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion, self-expression and the creation of social identity. This book explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion, film, art, history, literature, performance and consumer culture. Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis, cultural commentary and critical theory, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion will appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body.
SARAH CHEANG is Senior Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. GERALDINE BIDDLE-PERRY is Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
if thats what you are looking for there are other books better suited to that cause Elise M Robbins This is a book about hair theory. This is not a pictorial archive, if thats what you are looking for there are other books better suited to that cause. This book is about hair, not how to do hair but histories, identify and representation are talked about here in individual essays. If. Not worth the money Russell i just received this book today and feel completely ripped-off. $100+ for a book with limited BLACK AND WHITE photos? It's getting returned today.