Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings by Matt Lodder

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

Matt Lodder

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction art history sociology informative medium-paced
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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...

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