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The Tattoo
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Reaktion Books Written on the Body: the Tattoo in European and American History
The cover art for <I>Written on the Body</I> (A Young Daughter of the Picts) shows a 16th-century picture of a pleasantly broad-hipped Celtic woman wearing a flower-print dress. Except that it isn't a flower-print dress: the woman is covered in botanical tattoos. It is just one example of the antiquity and ubiquity of tattooing in human culture, a topic that this volume tackles with impressive depth and range. This is a book that started out as a scholarly academic tome gathering together a variety of anthropological and cultural studies essays on tattooing from Classical times to the present day; but, as with many Reaktion books, it transcends its origins. True, a couple of the essays are couched in academic-speak--Juliet Fleming, for instance, pondering tattooed skin in the Renaissance (within this new Euclidian space the skin functions as a Derridean supplement, the material remainder then haunts the objective spatial depth within which the Cartesian subject is driven to locate itself), but the majority of pieces in the collection are accessible and absorbing, helped by scores of fascinating illustrations. There are several accounts of James Cook's voyages to Tahiti, where the word tattoo comes from; and the volume comprehensively demonstrates how ubiquitous this practice is to human culture. Jane Caplan's own chapter on Tattooing in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a particularly good survey, from crude anchors and serpents on British sailors to the surprisingly elegant tattoos recorded on the bodies of French convicts--smart designs and cool logos like <I>l'ami du contraire</I> and <I>etoile du malheur</I>. A recurring theme in the essays is that although tattooing is often seen as a marginal activity, in fact it occupies a much more central place in human culture than is often acknowledged. While most books about tattoos are nothing more than catalogues of images, this collection is a thought-provoking and engaging investigation into the theory and practice of the art. Tattooing, it seems, is everywhere. --<I>Adam Roberts</I>
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Collins & Brown Skin Shows: The Tattoo Bible
Pages: 392, Paperback, Collins & Brown
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Simon & Schuster Ltd The Tattoo Encyclopaedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo
Pages: 304, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Juno Publishing The Tattoo History Sourcebook
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Carlton Books Ltd Celebrity Tattoos: Wear the Tattoo of Your Favourite Celebrity
Pages: 48, Paperback, Carlton Books Ltd
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Pantheon Books The Tattoo Artist
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Haworth Press Inc.,U.S. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965
Pages: 204, Hardcover, Haworth Press Inc.,U.S.
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Soho Press The Tattoo Murder Case (Soho Crime)
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