The Book of Skin
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100801488931
- ISBN-139780801488931
- LibraryThing954050
- Goodreads1077396
- Library of Congress Control Number2003055660
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780801488931
- Open LibraryOL7849312M
Classifications
- LCCGN191 .C66 2004
- LCCGN191.C66 2003
- DDC306.4
and 1 more
- LCCGN191 .C66 2004b
Description
"The Book of Skin explores the amazingly varied meanings of human skin in Western culture from classical times to the here and now. Every aspect and nuance of skin in history is to be found here: its poetry as well as its pathology, the chromatics of its pigmentation, the destructive rage exercised against it in violent fantasies, the shivering titillations of itch, the intensities and attenuations of erotic touch, blushing, suntanning, tattooing, flaying, stigmata, scarification, moles, birthmarks, massage, ointments and aromatics."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
If the skin has always been pressing, it has never been so much in evidence as it seems to be today.
Excerpt
If the skin has always been pressing, it has never been so much in evidence as it seems to be today.
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