Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos : A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0918393760
ISBN-13
9780918393760
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 18th, 1990
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
292 grams
Dimensions
21.30 x 15.30 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologySociology and anthropology
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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 famous—and infamous—tattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.
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