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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Body art & tattooing
This book is a compendium of symbols with sacred meanings, perfect for anyone looking to find a meaningful tattoo design, professional tattoo artists or anyone interested in folklore and religion. It gathers some of the most popular and lesser known signs from around the world in a comprehensive and accessible guide. Looking at each symbol's history and origins, it unveils the cultural and spiritual significance, alongside any folklore to give each image context, and showcases different tattoo styles for those seeking inspiration or just a fresh approach to a traditional design. The directory includes 75-100 lead symbols and themes, reflecting the way these develop and emerge across different folklore and religions. Each of these has an accessible list of meanings as well as a list of key uses and context to where the sacred origins lie.
This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and
significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich
cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body
art. Tattoos are everywhere: one in three of us has at least one.
Body art is one of the most popular ways of expressing our identity
and beliefs. But whether we're aware of it or not when we choose a
design to be permanently inked on our skin, a complex language of
meanings lies behind the visuals we choose. A lotus flower, koi
carp swimming upstream or a dragon rising towards the sun: in the
language of tattoos these are all symbols of strength and
overcoming adversity. This book uncovers the meanings behind tattoo
symbols, delving into the history of the most popular motifs that
recur in many different tattoo styles, including tribal,
traditional, Japanese and realistic. Over 130 symbols are grouped
according to their meanings, whether it's good luck, freedom,
wisdom, power, spirituality or love. Each symbol is illustrated
with stunning, specially drawn visuals by acclaimed artist and
tattooist Oliver Munden, and accompanied by an explanation by
tattoo expert Nick Schonberger which delves into its history,
significance and application in tattooing. Both a visual delight
and a fascinating insight into the rich cultural heritage of
tattooing, this is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn
more about tattoo symbolism, in need of inspiration for their next
tattoo, or who just loves tattoo art.
Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this
study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general
process of marking and being marked and is a social production of
identity and difference. Shifting the focus away from what the
tattooed body means to what it does, this work analyzes how it
functions and what effects it produces. It challenges the ways in
which identity and difference are discursively produced,
particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural
discourses. The writings of such theorists as Foucault, Levinas,
Barthes, and Lingis are scrutinized to reveal how their discourse
interprets the tattooed body as simply an aberrant threat to the
body or simply a positive counter-cultural challenge. These
theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of
subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the
relationships among them.
This examination of the role of the body in social, political,
and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of
disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies,
philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. It will also
appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of
body modification.
The evolution of tattoo art in America is spread before you in 265
impressive original tattoo flash sheets and insightful text written
by a tattoo artist who has designed on his own since 1960.
Military, religious, figural, animal, and nature themes are
displayed among the many hundred designs. Changes in tattoo art
over the years is shown as well as the trend today to return to
earlier designs. Individual artists are listed, along with others
who altered designs. This book will be an endless source of
inspiration, for those who are passionate about tattoo art.
Learn the proper techniques in creating and applying a tattoo
stencil through an illustrated step-by-step guide. A gallery of
original illustrations created by the authors for their clients,
displays the new direction of skin art from an artist's
perspective. This takes the reader on a journey of the designs in
the street shop tattoo studio looking at Old School designs, New
School, and New Old School styles that have driven tattoo design to
a new level that combines styles to create new forms. Skulls,
crosses, hearts, flames, knives, creatures, machines and adaptive
designs are featured here.
What happens to body arts when these aesthetic practices assume
fresh significance in the context of modernity? In many parts of
the indigenous world, the realm of body arts has become an arena
for innovation, debate, revival and repression under the conditions
of modernity. Among some groups, formerly suppressed 'traditions'
of body arts have recently been revived. Elsewhere, body arts have
been the means for creating or renovating identities in response to
a developing international tourist market and in the light of novel
technologies of representation, such as photography and film. The
contributions to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the
anthropology of the body, the western interest in body
ornamentation of the 'Other', and the recent revival of specific
body arts such as tattooing and piercing. Drawing on ethnographic
case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and
Polynesia, this volume shows how bodily presentation plays a
fundamental role in contemporary identity politics in tension with
encompassing national and global stereotypes, which may in turn
both constrain and empower local traditions.
Are you one of the thousands who would like to forego the daily
ritual of applying makeup? Do you yearn for faultless eyeliner,
perfectly shaped eyebrows, and beautifully outlined lips? Whether
your hands are not as steady as you would like, you are allergic to
ordinary cosmetics, or you simply want to save time, permanent
makeup will help you feel effortlessly beautiful from morning to
night. This procedure, which originated in Asia and is sweeping
across Europe and America, can also conceal scars and put the
finishing touches on cosmetic or plastic surgery. Before taking
such an important step, however, there are many questions to be
answered. Written by a specialist in the field and featuring many
before and after photos, this book provides detailed information on
what permanent makeup can do, who benefits from it, how much it
costs, finding and working with the right professional, advantages
and disadvantages and much more. Those interested in becoming
practitioners will also find valuable information on color theory,
equipment, certification, state regulations, and professional
associations. This fascinating book is a must for permanent makeup
practitioners, cosmetic surgeons, tattoo artists, and those who
want to improve their self-image, poise, and appearance once and
for all.
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive
photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies
communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism
through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working
within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive
gender and class evaluations.
This volume of drawings and photographs completes the "Russian
Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia" trilogy. Danzig Baldaev's
unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000
tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison
guard. His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the
KGB, who unexpectedly supported him, realizing the importance of
being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images
on their bodies. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives
of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to
politics and alcohol. A medieval knight is surrounded by the
severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services
a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human
bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drink vodka with
God on a cloud--the meanings of these arresting images are
explained to the uninitiated eye. Sergei Vasiliev's graphic
photographs show the grim reality of the Russian prison system and
some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, while the
illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed
society. This volume, the last in the trilogy, includes an
introduction by historian Alexander Sidorov exploring the origins
of the Russian criminal tattoo and their various meanings today.
Enter a visual smorgasbord of tattoo imagery. Hundreds of
photographs, thousands of tattoos. This incredible assembly of
historic tattoo images dates back to the invention of the camera
and follows the art form's progression through the 1970s. Here is a
celebration of tattoo and people who enjoy the art form. The images
document tattoo designs varying from testaments of love and
military badges, religious imagery, and tribal markings. Shown are
circus performers who exhibit neck-to-toe art; Navy boys who
proudly sport new sets of sails, and men and women who show off
lifetime collections. Here, too, are the daring young women who
defied convention by tattooing and piercing their bodies during the
early 1960s and '70s.
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