Body Embellishment explores innovative artistic expression in the 21st-century international arenas of body extension, augmentation, and modification through jewelry, tattoos, nail art, and fashion.
Body Embellishment
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Title: Body Embellishment
Author(s): Annie Carlano, Rebecca E. Elliot, Sarah M. Wolfe
Topic: body adornment, fashion, jewelry, nail art, tattoo art
Publication Year: 2015
Institution: The Mint Museum
Discipline: art history, craft history, design history, fashion history
Relevant Country(s): and others, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Material: acrylic, and others, fabric, gemstones, ink, metal, skin