Making faces, playing God : identity and the art of transformational makeup /
Morawetz, Thomas, 1942-
Making faces, playing God : identity and the art of transformational makeup / Thomas Morawetz. - xii, 234 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Includes index.
The Culture and Art of Transformation. The Significance and Invention of Faces. The Culture of Transformation. The Art of Transformation -- The Practice of Transformation. The Demonic. Aliens. Disguise for Its Own Sake. Variant Selves. Impersonation. Beyond Human. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Wearing a mask - putting on another face - embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational maekup for theater, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other.""--BOOK JACKET.
0292752466 9780292752467 0292752474 9780292752474
00064846
Theatrical makeup
Impersonation
Self-perception
PN2068 / .M59 2001
792.027
Making faces, playing God : identity and the art of transformational makeup / Thomas Morawetz. - xii, 234 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Includes index.
The Culture and Art of Transformation. The Significance and Invention of Faces. The Culture of Transformation. The Art of Transformation -- The Practice of Transformation. The Demonic. Aliens. Disguise for Its Own Sake. Variant Selves. Impersonation. Beyond Human. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Wearing a mask - putting on another face - embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational maekup for theater, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other.""--BOOK JACKET.
0292752466 9780292752467 0292752474 9780292752474
00064846
Theatrical makeup
Impersonation
Self-perception
PN2068 / .M59 2001
792.027