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“Why is it that, 100,000 years ago, our ancestors started removing hair from their faces and bodies, using stone tweezers and shells? Why did gays adopt the beard as a sign of liberation in the 1970s? And why is everyone wearing beards again today, from Taliban to hipsters, bankers to fashion models? This book is a journey through time, ideologies, and changing styles, and asks the perennial question: What makes a man a man?” These are questions Kevin Clarke explores in his groundbreaking cultural history book Beards. In addition to his view on the clones of the 1970s and their recent return, there are interviews and facts about beards as well as photographs showing how beautiful a man’s beard can be. The ultimate guide to the history of male facial hair. In English and German!
Price: $19.99
Pages: 256
Publisher: Salzgeber
Imprint: Bruno Gmuender
Publication Date:
01 October 2015
Trim Size: 11.00 X 8.25 in
ISBN: 9783959850018
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, ART / Popular Culture, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles
“Fascinating details and a great array of photographs.” – Graeme Aitken, DNA Magazine
“Beautifully illustrated.” – Out Magazine
“Up-to-date, ironic, fancy.” – Manuel Bug, Die Welt
"18 Facial Hair Today: Out & Proud
24 The History of the Stripes
36 Time Line: Egypt – Greece – Rome
38 Beards Are Back in Town
42 Interview: Beards & Religion
52 The Beardless Nuba
54 Electric Razors
58 Interview: Beards & Porn
74 Time Line: Queer Facial Hair, Part One
78 Shaving Devices
82 The Birth of the 1970s Clone Look
99 King Camp Gillette
102 Time Line: Medieval Facial Hair
106 Interview: Beards & Hispters
118 Interview: Beards & Movies
128 Steve Cruz’s Beard Blog
132 Interview: Beards & Fashion
140 Oscar Wilde’s Anti-Beard
146 Time Line: US Presidents
148 Ten Thousand Years of Beard History at a Glance
170 Fold-Out Razor Blades
184 Interview: Beards & Comics
194 Interview: Beards & Pop Music
206 Time Line: Queer Facial Hair, Part Two
208 Interview: Beards & Gender
220 The Return of the Clones
246 The Philips Company"