Customizing the body : the art and culture of tattooing /

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Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sanders, Clinton
Other Authors: Vail, D. Angus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
Subjects:
Tattooing > Social aspects.
Tattoo artists.
Tatouage > Aspect social.
Tatoueurs.
tattoo artists.
ART > Body Art & Tattooing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Tattoo artists
Tattooing > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : body alteration, artistic production, and the social world of tattooing
  • Becoming and being a tattooed person
  • The tattooist : tattooing as a career and an occupation
  • The tattoo relationship : risk and social control in the studio
  • Conclusion : tattooing and the social definition of art
  • Epilogue 2008 : body modification then and now / Clinton R. Sanders with D. Angus Vail.

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