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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
1990-07-18
Publication Date:
1990-06-18
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0918393760
ISBN13:
9780918393760
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
286 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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