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Painted People - Humanity in 21 Tattoos (Hardcover)
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Painted People - Humanity in 21 Tattoos (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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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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