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050	0	0	_aCT788.D524 _bA4 2010
082	1		_a731.75 LEV _2
100	1		_aLeVasseur, Bill
245	1	0	_aAnother face of Mexico _c/ Bill LeVasseur
260			_aSanta Fe, NM _b: Art Guild Press LLC _c, 2014
300			_a139 p. _b: illus. _c; 29 cm
500			_aLocated in the Gloria Grant room - special collection of San Miguel authors.
520			_aAnother Face of Mexico explores Mexican indigenous masked ceremonies. It is the museum catalog for Another Face of Mexico Museum in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The museum houses about 500 of the approximately 1,000 masks in LeVasseur's collection. The book features wonderfully detailed color photos of almost 150 of these masks that have all been used in masked dancing ceremonies in various parts of Mexico. Another Face of Mexico perfectly describes this mask collection, giving the reader a virtual tour of the museum. Masking and masked ceremony is indeed "another face of Mexico," an aspect of this country that most people are not aware of. Man's desire to transform, to disguise, to imagine, to act out, to be something or someone that they are not, to hide and pretend, are all compulsions that can be satisfied by masking. The indigenous people of Mexico continue to this day to be "mask masters," incorporating masked ceremony into their social, religious and cultural celebrations in spite of creeping modernity and contemporary influences. Mask use in Mexico has survived for centuries and masks continue to be indigenous cultural icons.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aMasks in art
650		4	_aMasks _z-Mexico _x-Exhibition
830		0	_aSan Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author
942			_cMO
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