Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup Thomas Morawetz Primary Author mixed material bibliography English University of Texas Press 2001 monographic en English

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256 pages 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. 791.027 MOR m9780292752474 Lasalle College Jakarta Library Catalogue 791.027 MOR m AMU10054 Artistic Makeup 791.027 MOR m 1759 2018-05-18 10:55:40 2018-05-18 10:56:15 machine generated