Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times - Hardcover

Richard Corson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720611954 ISBN 13: 9780720611953

Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Fashions in Makeup is a unique book in its field: a comprehensive history of cosmetics. In this highly praised volume, Richard Corson chronicles the pursuit of beauty from Ancient Egypt to the present day. Concentrating mainly on makeup traditions of the Western world, with examples from other countries included for comparison, Corson describes the cosmetics with which men and women have decorated their faces, how they have applied them, and what they looked like as a result.

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Review:

Chronicles in devastating detail the history of that absorbing folly the pursuit of beauty . . . An encyclopaedic study, a valuable book of reference. Times Literary Supplement --Times Literary Supplement

A monumental book. Daily Telegraph --Daily Telegraph

Together with Fashions in Hair it provides a comprehensive range of reference for students of fashion and all those professionally engaged in the exploitation of vanity. Guardian --Guardian

About the Author:

RICHARD CORSON taught theatrical makeup in colleges throughout the United States and worked as a theatrical makeup consultant. His companion books, Fashions in Hair and Fashions in Eyeglasses, published by Peter Owen, are classics in their field. He died in 1999. This edition was updated by James sherwood, a fashion consultant for the Independent, who contributes to the Financial Times and the Herald Tribune and is senior editor of Arena Homme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0720611954
• ISBN 13: 9780720611953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 664