EAN: 9780008402105

PAINTED PEOPLE - MATT LODDER KARTONIERT (TB)

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.'Until
now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The
earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to Ötzi  the 'iceman'  whose mummy allows us a brief
glimpse into the prehistory of the practice. We know that over the more than five thousand
years since he was tattooed  countless cultures have performed this ancient practice  and
people in every corner of the world have been tattooed. For the most part  these fascinating
histories remain stubbornly untold  and the secrets of Siberian princesses  Chinese generals
and Victorian socialites have been hidden on the skin  under layers of clothing and under
layers of history. Now 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 on tattooing  tells the stories of people like
Arnaq  who was tattooed in keeping with her cultural and religious traditions in
sixteenth-century Canada  and Horace Ridler  who was tattooed as a means to make money in 1930s
London. And in between these two extremes  he describes tattoos inked for love  for loyalty 
for sedition and espionage and for self-expression  as well as tattoos inflicted on the
unwilling  to ostracise. Taken together  these twenty-one tattoos paint a portrait of humanity
as both artist and canvas.

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