Painted People - Matt Lodder
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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 OEtzi, 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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