Mask

This informative publication with more than 700 colour photographs and drawings is aimed at experts and the general public interested in masks, fine art and collecting. The manuscript is unique in its conception in that it combines the transformations of a person's identity through masking, depiction, and the permanent change of scarification. It covers historical and contemporary trends of decorative and cult "masking" of man in the culture of different continents. The topic has never been treated in this form before and is completely original. prof. PhDr. Ludvík Baran, DrSc., DrHc. The subject of Kateřina Ebelová's exceptionally well-crafted book is the phenomenon of masks in a cross-cultural and historical perspective. At present, there is no work conceived in this way that would enable those interested in the phenomenon of masks to orient themselves in the given issue. PhDr. Václav Soukup, CSc.