Masked
Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity in Fashion and Popular Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 9 July 2026
- ISBN 9781350236165
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 236x160x20 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language
- Illustrations 51 colour illus 700
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Long description:
What is a mask? A disguise or a means of protection? Laini Burton's comprehensive examination of masking in Western culture explores the mask as an enduring tool of personal, political and social transformation.
Beginning in the Middle Ages, Burton explores how key examples such as Venetian carnival and English masquerade sit at a historical crossroads between medieval masking traditions and early modern cultural shifts. These historical precedents reveal how politics, social order, performance, and identity continue to drive masking practices today. Turning to contemporary culture, Burton evaluates the mask's varied uses in club culture, haute couture, celebrity performances, masked protests, social media, and digital innovations including deepfakes. Through these contexts, Burton demonstrates how masks enable anonymity, reinvention, catharsis, celebration, and unity. Chapters consider how masks function as material objects and symbolic devices, challenging fundamental assumptions about authenticity, surface and depth, visibility and recognition.
Masked: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity in Fashion and Popular Culture urges us to reconsider how identities are constructed, maintained, and performed, identifying the mask as a paradoxical mechanism that not only obscures identity, but actively constructs, mediates, and transforms it.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Historical Mask
The Carnival Mask: A Precursor
The Mask of Angst
The Mask at Masquerade
2. Late Twentieth-Century Experiments
Leigh Bowery - Vanguard Masker
The Couture Mask: Martin Margiela and Walter Van Beirendonck
3. The Spectacle of Anonymity
Bj-rk
Ye (Kanye) West
Sia
Lady Gaga
4. Future Proofing the Face
Facial Recognition Technologies: Your Face Does Not Belong to You
The Mask of Justice: #BLACKLIVESMATTER and Masked Protest
The Mask as a Health Measure and Climate Sensing Tool
5. The Digital Mask
Filters and Fakery
Deepfakes
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
