Tattoo
Author: Pascal Bagot, Joe Cummings, Anna Felicity Friedman, Alan Govenar, Simon Jean, Andrea Juno, V. Vale, Lars Krutak, Florence Lamy and Sébastien Galliot
Explores the artistic nature of tattooing and celebrates its living, creative, changing essence. Alongside the omniscience of tattoing throughout the world for thousands of years, presented through rare artifacts, this book pays tribute to the pioneers of the modern era, those responsible for its great transformation into the mainstream.
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Explores the artistic nature of tattooing and celebrates its living, creative, changing essence. Alongside the omniscience of tattoing throughout the world for thousands of years, presented through rare artifacts, this book pays tribute to the pioneers of the modern era, those responsible for its great transformation into the mainstream.
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This book explores the art of tattooing and celebrates its creativity
The artists featuring in the book are world recognized. All active continents are represented: Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. All practitioners are respected by their peers for their contribution to the art. Finally there is a series of photos presenting the two most recent currents in modern tattooing, a locker room of aesthetic graphics that firmly root tattooing in the third millennium.
Alongside the presence of tattoing throughout the world for thousands of years, presented through rare artifacts, the book pays tribute to the pioneers of the modern era, those responsible for its great transformation into the mainstream.
Tattooing has become one of the most dynamic artistic currents of our era and is ever-evolving, despite the great revolutions the art has undergone. This book looks to its foremost representatives, the tattoo artists themselves.
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About the Author
Anna Felicity Friedman teaches at the University of Chicago, where she has conducted research on the history of tattooing. She was the curator of a travelling exhibition about tattoo history and culture, which put her in touch with a wide range of contemporary global artists.
From Edo-era Japan to contemporary biker culture, Tattoo combines aesthetic and anthropological approaches The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC,
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