"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Reaktion Books, London."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Pregression: a skin that walks -- Complexion -- Exposition -- Disfiguring -- Impression -- Stigmata -- Off-colour -- Unction -- Aroma -- Itch -- The light touch.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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."--Jacket.