Download or read book An Unreliable History of Tattoos written by Paul Thomas and published by Nobrow Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We would love to tell you about the history of tattoos, but the desire to crack jokes is too strong!
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tattoos written by Gail Barbara Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why people choose to be tattooed, and many of them are the same reasons that have appealed to people throughout the world since prehistoric times--to make themselves more attractive, show their affiliation with a tribe or group, or commemorate a milestone in their lives.
Download or read book The History of Tattooing written by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing 1925 survey offers one of the most complete histories of world tattoo practices. Written during an era when colonial authorities had all but eliminated indigenous tattooing, it discusses their significance in terms of religious beliefs and social status. This Dover edition features a new selection of 80 images from vanishing cultures.
Download or read book The Tattoo History Source Book HC written by Steve Gilbert and published by Juno Books. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tattoo History Source Book is an exhaustingly thorough, lavishly illustrated collection of historical records of tattooing throughout the world, from ancient times to the present. Collected together in one place, for the first time, are texts by explorers, journalists, physicians, psychiatrists, anthropologists, scholars, novelists, criminologists, and tattoo artists. A brief essay by Gilbert sets each chapter in an historical context. Topics covered include the first written records of tattooing by Greek and Roman authors; the dispersal of tattoo designs and techniques throughout Polynesia; the discovery of Polynesian tattooing by European explorers; Japanese tattooing; the first 19th-century European and American tattoo artists; tattooed British royalty; the invention of the tattooing machine; and tattooing in the circus. The anthology concludes with essays by four prominent contemporary tattoo artists: Tricia Allen, Chuck Eldridge, Lyle Tuttle, and Don Ed Hardy. The references at the end of each section will provide an introduction to the extensive literature that has been inspired by the ancient-but-neglected art of tattooing. Because of its broad historical context, The Tattoo History Source Book will be of interest to the general reader as well as art historians, tattoo fans, neurasthenics, hebephrenics, and cyclothemics.
Download or read book The World of Tattoo written by Maarten Hesselt van Dinter and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing collection of images and information on the tattooing customs of all cultures that ever practised tattooing.
Download or read book Body and Text Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments written by David Callahan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of academic essays that take a fresh look at content and body transformation in the new media, highlighting how old hierarchies and canons of analysis must be revised. The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has commonly involved high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) being transformed into recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies, and the formation of global conglomerates has created the commercial conditions for ever more lucrative exchanges between different media. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emerging interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. Moreover, transformation may be not just a technology-driven creative practice and response, but at the very centre of the thematic worlds developed in those forms of story-telling which are currently popular: television series, video games, films and novels. The magic transformation of “your” money into “their” money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people’s identity practices in daily life.
Download or read book Written on the Body written by Jane Caplan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing--and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves--the practice has not left much of a historical record. And, until very recently, there was no good context for writing a serious history of tattooing in the West. This collection exposes, for the first time, the richness of the tattoo's European and American history from antiquity to the present day. In the process, it rescues tattoos from their stereotypical and sensationalized association with criminality. The tattoo has long hovered in a space between the cosmetic and the punitive. Throughout its history, the status of the tattoo has been complicated by its dual association with slavery and penal practices on the one hand and exotic or forbidden sexuality on the other. The tattoo appears often as an involuntary stigma, sometimes as a self-imposed marker of identity, and occasionally as a beautiful corporal decoration. This volume analyzes the tattoo's fluctuating, often uncomfortable position from multiple angles. Individual chapters explore fascinating segments of its history--from the metaphorical meanings of tattooing in Celtic society to the class-related commodification of the body in Victorian Britain, from tattooed entertainers in Germany to tattooing and piercing as self-expression in the contemporary United States. But they also accumulate to form an expansive, textured view of permanent bodily modification in the West. By combining empirical history, powerful cultural analysis, and a highly readable style, this volume both draws on and propels the ongoing effort to write a meaningful cultural history of the body. The contributors, representing several disciplines, have all conducted extensive original research into the Western tattoo. Together, they have produced an unrivalled account of its history. They are, in addition to the editor, Clare Anderson, Susan Benson, James Bradley, Ian Duffield, Juliet Fleming, Alan Govenar, Harriet Guest, Mark Gustafson, C. P. Jones, Charles MacQuarrie, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Stephan Oettermann, Jennipher A. Rosecrans, and Abby Schrader.
Download or read book The History of Tattooing and Its Significance written by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos written by Samuel M. Steward, PhD and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago’s tough State Street. During that time he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness. His lascivious relish for the young sailors swaggering or staggering in for a new tattoo does not blind him to the sordidness of the world they inhabited. From studly nineteen-year-olds who traded blow jobs for tattoos to hard-bitten dykes who scared the sailors out of the shop, the clientele was seedy at best: sailors, con men, drunks, hustlers, and Hells Angels. These days, when tattoo art is sported by millionaires and the middle class as well as by gang members and punk rockers, the sheer squalor of Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a revelation. However much tattoo culture has changed, the advice and information is still sound: how to select a good tattoo artist what to expect during a tattooing session how to ensure the artist uses sterile needles and other safety precautions how to care for a new tattoo why people get tattoos--25 sexual motivations for body artMore than a history of the art or a roster of famous--and infamous--tattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.
Download or read book New York City Tattoo written by Michael McCabe and published by Hardy Marks Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City Tattoo documents the lively, humorous and often violent history of the art from the early years of the 20th century, in the words of the men who "pushed the pins" in places like Coney Island and the Bowery. Tattooing at the time evoked the dangerous fringes of society, and for over a decade Michael McCabe assiduously gained the confidence of the few surviving practitioners of this vanished era. These highly-charged interviews provide a privileged look into a clannish world of honor, respect, and jealously guarded trade secrets. They reveal facets of New York social history and a volatile, misunderstood and secretive art form.
Download or read book TATTOO written by LODDER MATT and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Painted People written by Matt Lodder and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history.' 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' For all of human history, we have made permanent marks on our skin - for multifarious, fascinating, reasons. The oldest preserved tattooed skin that survives is European: Ötzi, the famous 'Iceman' mummy, whose body is covered in small tattoo marks, allows us a brief glimpse into the pre-history of the practice. Since then, people in every corner of the world have decided to tattoo themselves, and countless cultures have performed this ancient artistic practice. But for the most part, these fascinating histories remain stubbornly untold - glorious characters, unbelievable truths and the lives of people from 5000 BCE to the present day have been hidden on the skin, under layers of clothing, and under layers of history. With access to a wealth of new and unreported material, this book will roll up its sleeves and reveal the artwork hidden beneath them. In Painted People, Dr Matt Lodder, one of the world's foremost experts in tattooing will reveal what tattoos - and the people who wore them - tell us about a changing world. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at this untold history of humanity.
Download or read book Tattoos written by Matt Lodder and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true history of tattoo in the West Tattooing has increased in popularity and prestige over the past several decades, yet mainstream cultural criticism remains divided as to how the practice relates to art. A pervasive stereotype persists of tattooing relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne'er-do-wells, and this is consistently reinforced by popular media. Drawing on extensive new research and unprecedented access to largely unpublished private archives of photographs, art, and ephemera, Matt Lodder offers a new perspective on the history of commercial tattooing in Western culture, beginning even before it emerged as a recognizable profession in the mid-nineteenth century. In the process, he shows that tattoo as an art form has long been both practiced and commissioned by individuals across economic, gender, and class divides. This unprecedented history of tattoo from the eighteenth century to the present stems from more than a decade of research. As museums and institutional archives have not historically collected the objects or archives necessary to undertake a rigorous historical investigation, Lodder has spent years searching for the private archives of collectors and industry insiders, and many of the images here are published for the first time. Richly illustrated and much anticipated, this eye-opening book will satisfy the curiosity of tattoo's many admirers with a nuanced understanding of how tattoos as an art form have evolved through history, who made them and who commissioned them, and why.
Download or read book The History of Tattooing and Its Significance with Some Account of Other Forms of Corporal Marking written by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tattoos in Modern Society written by Janey Levy and published by Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of tattooing, how the art entered mainstream society, reasons for getting tattoos, styles and designs, and famous tattoo artists.
Download or read book A History of Tattoo written by Anna Felicity Freeman and published by LOM ART. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and deeply researched history of the art of tattoo, illustrated with hundreds of stunning artworks and photographs.In A History of Tattoo, scholar and tattoo historian Dr Anna Felicity Friedman celebrates the art, craft and culture of tattooing from its earliest origins through to the present day. Taking a unique, non-linear approach to exploring the artform, chapters are arranged by theme rather than chronologically or geographically, highlighting the similarities that have emerged organically in the myriad cultures of tattooing around the world.With sections on dozens of tattoo styles and genres, including religious, carceral, ancestral, rebellious and artistic, and examples that span both centuries and continents, you'll find expert commentary on the people, practice and politics of the artform inside. Richly illustrated with hundreds of gorgeous photographs and artworks from some of the world's premier tattoo artists, this is a beautiful and insightful introduction for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the art of tattoo.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence Horror and Power written by Erdem, M. Nur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individual’s sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticized. Aesthetics of violence appear in different fields and in different forms. In order to analyze it, an interdisciplinary perspective is required. The Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power brings together two different concepts that seem incompatible—aesthetics and violence—and focuses on the basic motives of aestheticizing and presenting violence in different fields and genres, as well as the role of audience reception. Seeking to reveal this togetherness with different methods, research, analyses, and findings in different fields that include media, urban design, art, and mythology, the book covers the aestheticization of fear, power, and violence in such mediums as public relations, digital games, and performance art. This comprehensive reference is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of media, culture, art, politics, architecture, aesthetics, history, cultural anthropology, and more.
