Samuel M. Steward

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos (eBook, ePUB)

A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of an erudite professor of English who abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, he spent 18 years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago's tough State Street. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness, and the reasons people get tattoos are analyzed with rare intelligence. More than a history of the art or a roster of famousand infamoustattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135022976
• Artikelnr.: 39041705

Autorenporträt

Steward, PhD, Samuel M.