Looking at Makeup

Looking at Makeup

Studio Arts, Women and Gender Studies

"Three inch double-sided round accordion is pasted into the base of the plastic compact. The interior cover of the book is the familiar, beige foam pad used for applying color. Compact is housed in a gold fabric sleeve (three inches square) with printed title. Minion type on Strathmore paper. Hand colored pictures of women applying blush and tweezing, a heavily made-up face, and a tabletop array of cosmetics.

This small book housed in a mirrored compact expresses Woman's ambivalent relationship with cosmetics as both agent of transformation and of potential denial and constraint. Brief reminiscences of Charm School and of one sister tweezing another's eyebrows depict make-up's function as a rite of passage for girls, a chance to choose their own personas, what faces they will wear in the world. Make-up is part of the private language of women, a modern day initiation which we embrace or reject. As you read, peer over the top of the book into the mirrored lid at your own natural or made-up image and reflect on your choice."

Weisbrot, Marcia

Pencilhead Press

2001

Scope and Images from Vamp and Tramp http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/p/pencilhead.html

"1 volume (unpaged); color illustrations; 7 cm.
Accordion-fold strip of circular pages, printed on both sides, with make-up compact cover. Housed in a sequined pouch inside a lucite case (10 x 7 x 5 cm.). Added t.p. on applicator sponge.
Denison's copy is 23 of 25, and signed by author. Denison's copy housed in cardboard box."

English

35108007034044

DEN Spec Coll N7433.4.W45 .L66 2001