Masks, Transformation, and Paradox

by: Napier, A.D.

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Masks, transformation, and paradox
Author:A. David Napier

Summary:Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography

Contents:
Masks, transformation, and paradox
Masks and the beginning of Greek drama
Satyr, Centaur, Theriomorphic healer
Perseus and the Gorgon head
The Thirrd eye
Balinese faces and Indian prototypes

xxvi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subjects:
Comparative studies
Griechenland
Griekse oudheid
Hindoeïsme
Hindu mythology
Kultmaske
Kulturanthropologie
Kunst
Maske
Maskers
Masks
Masks, to 1973
Masques
Mythologie
Mythologie Comparatisme
Mythologie Études comparatives
Mythologie grecque
Mythologie hindoue
Mythology
Mythology Comparative studies
Mythology, Greek
Paradox
Paradoxe
Paradoxon
masks (costume)

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox

by: Napier, A.D.

• ISBN-13: 9780520045330 / 978-0-520-04533-0
• ISBN-03: 0520045335 / 0-520-04533-5
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock