Making Faces, Playing God

Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup (livre en anglais)

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de Thomas Morawetz

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Technique > Maquillage

Mots Clés

maquillage, personnages

Année d'édition

2001

Editeur

University of Texas Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 246 pages
18 x 25 cm

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ISBN-13

0-274-70600-8
978-0-274-70600-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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 makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other."

Morawetz begins by discussing the cultural role of fantasies of transformation and what these fantasies reveal about questions of personal identity. He next turns to professional makeup artists and describes their background, training, careers, and especially the techniques they use to create their art. Then, with numerous before-during-and-after photos of transformational makeups from popular and little-known shows and movies, ads, and artist's demos and portfolios, he reveals the art and imagination that go into six kinds of mask-making—representing demons, depicting aliens, inventing disguises, transforming actors into different (older, heavier, disfigured) versions of themselves, and creating historical or mythological characters.

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