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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

By Steward, Samuel M.

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos Social Sciences

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
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
1990-11-01
Publication Date:
1990-07-18
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1560240237
ISBN13:
9781560240235
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
396 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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