Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	FUEL Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Fuel
Dimensions:	208 x 123 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-9550061-9-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Body art & tattooing Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN:	0-9550061-9-8
Barcode:	9780955006197

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