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Summary: Must-have coffe table book for body painting lovers
Review: This is a must have coffee table book for anyone even remotely interested in body painting. The book itself is huge and packed with spectacular photographs on glossy paper. There is a 4-page layout in the middle. Each of the 45 artists has done one body painting, then posed the model in several positions. Both nude females & males, as well as all races are used. Biographies of all the artists are in the back. It is truly amazing how imaginative and talented the artists are. One woman in painted white on the front & black on her back. Asian style characters are written on both sides in the opposite color. One of my favorites is a woman with a paitned on corset. Other females have eyes or faces painted on their chests. I also fell in love with the golden metallic man & woman.
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Summary: Spectacular
Review: With 45 artists, there are bound to be a few misses, but in this case there are _very_ few... the painting is first-rate, the models varied and expressive, and the photography captures it all perfectly. Body art is unique in that painter, model, and photographer are (or should be) all artists, and the collaboration is not easy (witness failures like Buis' "Body Painting".) The combination is very well done throughout, and as a bonus, there's a lot of it - this is a good, hefty bit of work. My only complaint is the relative lack of text (after a short initial essay, there isn't any.) It would have been worth brushing up on my Spanish to be able to read some of the thoughts of the individual artists about their work.
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