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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Bell |
ISBN: | 9780786497539 078649753X |
OCLC Number: | 904166349 |
Description: | xi, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The traditional mask in performance -- Describing and displaying the work of traditional mask makers -- Mask making techniques -- Influeneces on mask making for contemporary masked performances -- Commercial mask makers and traditional mythic concepts -- New global directions for mask makers. |
Responsibility: | Deborah Bell. |
Abstract:
Profiling 30 mask makers from around the world, this book explores the motivations and challenges of contemporary artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making to an evolving global theatre. There are 181 photographs of mask makers and their works illustrate how the mythic iconography of masks is used in the modern fields of dance, mime, theatre, and storytelling.
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