This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world; and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions; its history; its music; its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory; based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner; has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend; offering a re-definition of carnival that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates; but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event.Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Book shows that different can be a great thing!By AmandaIts good if you want reference images with barely any words written about the picture. Most pictures contain only slight words on shading being darker there or lighter here; but not much else. No instruction on how to recreate any of the beautiful sketches for ourselves. Its great for reference; like I said; but it just wasnt what I was expecting-But that wasnt necessarily a bad thing. I read through it and I realized that step-by-step books can only teach so much. But a book like this-one that tells you how to create different textures then illustrates them for you to see and study closely-teaches you more than youd think possible by just looking at pictures.Makes you slow down and think about what you need to do to create what you want. Its perfect in that; as well as showing some beautiful artwork with techniques a bit dated; but not bad at all.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. It isnt quite what I expected; more of an ...By Catherine KostynIt isnt quite what I expected; more of an overview of very basic drawing techniques and then straight into overviews of completed drawings. There really isnt any discussion of suggestions for the beginner on different ways to draw common objects found in landscapes.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy jeffJust plates of completed work. Simple; high-level points discussed; but no step-by-step instruction or approaches to drawing landscapes.