Masks, Transformation, and ParadoxMasks are found world wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greecein particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgonprovide his