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This classic of ethnography describes Maori tattooing (moko), which communicates the bearer's genealogy, tribal affiliation, and spirituality. This definitive study relates how moko first became known to Europeans and discusses the distinctions between men and women's moko, patterns and designs, and moko in legend and song. Features 180 black-and-white illustrations.
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Wonderful book!.......2007-02-14
I've read a lot about Maori tattooing, and this book is very informative and interesting. I strongly reccommend it for educational or personal research.
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- Historical Tattoo
- A Book of Salty Tales
- Absolute Must Have
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New York City Tattoo: The Oral History of an Urban Art
Michael McCabe
Manufacturer: Hardy Marks Publications
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Customer Reviews:
Historical Tattoo.......2005-12-29
Totally awesome... I'm only halfway through but anyone interested in tattoo (culture, history, development, art, etc.) and its roots in NYC should have this book. Full of interviews & pictures... there's a lot here and a lot of information to digest, esp. about Brooklyn, Lower East Side, Bowery, etc. I can't reccommend this book enough! So get it!
A Book of Salty Tales.......2000-08-07
Excellent book. It takes you back to a different era, when tattoo shops were only on the rough side of town, and the tattooers were salty old dogs who took no guff from anyone. Full of humor in the recollections of many well respected old-timers. Very interesting to see the slight differences in recollection, by the subjects' memories of things that happened. Excellent prints of traditional flash and old photos.
Absolute Must Have.......1999-09-30
So few texts have been written based on quality research into old-school/traditional style tattoos, but this one stands out as a shining example. Wonderfully laid out, providing both a historic, relationship, and spatial vision of what the tattoo culture was from just before WW 2 until the late 60's.
Excellent, and I highly recommend for anyone's collection.
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Maori.......2000-04-05
The book by Michael King, Revised Edition of a photography and social history, which submission all the facts of life among Maori before the Euporean time of settlements in NZ, what are the Maori like in past and today are totally different
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- Mind. Body. Soul.
- Marking the body to heal the soul
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Pagan Fleshworks: The Alchemy of Body Modification
Maureen Mercury
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Book Description
A groundbreaking work that sees the contemporary cultural trends of tattooing, piercing, implanting, and branding as a quest for a transformative psychic experience.
• Features unforgettable color photographs by Steve Haworth, the foremost body modification artist in the United States.
• Introduces a subculture that has gone far beyond the realm of simple tattooing.
Acts of body modification are deeply rooted in physical impulses that are obscured in our technological society. As we become more removed from the physicality of our existence, we lose touch with an essential part of our humanity. Body modification is a way of reconnecting to our bodies, to the earth, and to the divine.
Pagan Fleshworks reveals that the prevalence of body modification--tattooing, piercings, brandings, and implants--is the postmodern way to heal the body and enliven the soul. These "fleshworks" are the result of people creating their own rituals and symbols of meaning in order to feel a sense of the divine within.
Maureen Mercury relates the various stages of obtaining fleshworks to the stages of alchemy, showing how fleshworks lead to psychic transformation--soul-making. Using mythological imagery and the stories of those who have chosen to modify their bodies, she identifies the signposts of our journey toward self-expression, exploring the connection between our desires and our outward life. More than 30 riveting color photographs by leading body modification artist Steve Haworth provide the perfect visual complement to this examination of the soul as it rises toward freedom.
Customer Reviews:
Mind. Body. Soul........2001-12-27
I've read and viewed almost all of the formative works on body modification, and for the most part I've been left with a rotten taste in my mouth, and an even greater sense of dispair for the unmodified world around me.
But this book is a bit different, I suspected and hoped this would shine a different light on my culture when I first heard about it. Having Reverend Haworth's input made my hopes soar even higher, he being the frontman to all that is extreme body modification in the WORLD at the moment. There are quite a few piercer's in the world, but none with his intelligence or dedication to do surgical mods with such grace and fluence, he is THE Body Modification Artist of our times. And of course he's my COBM Rev. of choice, which may mean I'm a bit biased. :)
Nice pictures, not so artistic that someone who doesn't know much about modification won't know what's going on (such as with ModCon's photos which I have to explain in detail to people). The book as a literary whole is put together well, and gives a broad expanse of insight on body modification... showing it as human society's natural progression that we've followed since we first evolved, not as a fad meant to draw attention.
Pagan Fleshworks is a better book than most when it comes to this topic, it didn't change my views on anything and I didn't agree with everything written. But it wasn't the usual "in-your-face-this-is-what's-right"... that people who throw around their doctorates as a means of justification put out regularly.
It gives the mind room to interpet, and conceive it's own thoughts... because after all that's what this culture's about... freedom of choice and expression.
It's not a must have buy to me (even though I own it), but it certainly deserves a checkout from the local library.
Marking the body to heal the soul.......2001-04-23
In this book, Maureen Mercury proposes that the growing popularity and acceptance of body modification in western culture is due to our need to recapture the personal rituals that we have lost. This book is not aimed at a neo-pagan audience, but at individuals who are looking for something deeper and more personally spiritual. I found myself agreeing with many of the ideas in this book. The photographs by Steve Haworth are outstanding as well. Place this one near the top of the list of the recent group of body modification books.
If you like this, then check this out too!.......2001-02-20
Okay, okay- I've reviewed this book already. I wanted to say that if you like body modification, are new to it, or simply have an interest, then you might want to check out this website:
Bmezine.com
It's a huge collection of photos and stories of people brave enough to modify themselves in accordance with their own wishes.
Highly recomended, as is this book. Hope this helps you find what you're looking for. :)
pagan fleshworks.......2001-02-17
Any one interested in pagan culture, neo-paganism or wicca this is NOT the book for you. It should have been titled "Punk Fleshworks". If you are interested in the current punk-rock scene and body art then this will be of interest to you and well worth the read.
Amazing photos, comprehensive scope.......2000-11-27
Many people today are interested in finding something more in today's hectic post-modern world. In this diverse and exceptionaly researched book, the author and photographer shows us one way in which some individuals find that elusive "deeper meaning": mody modification.
Operating on the premise that one's own body is yours and yours alone, and that the more profoundly affecting an expierience the better, the reader is taken on a step by step tour through this little known but very intriguing world.
There are photos galore, many of them (almost all) in color. Some are truly awesome and unforgettable; this earns its place, rightfully so, as a work of art.
Overall, this book is immaculate and a perfect addition to the bookshelf of someone looking for some variety and searching for something new, exiting and different.
Not to mention pretty damn cool!
Book Description
Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy -- a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort -- Cy reinvents himself in the incandescent honky-tonk of Coney Island in its heyday between the two world wars. Amid the carnival decadence of freak shows and roller coasters, enchanters and enigmas, scam artists and marks, Cy will find his muse: an enigmatic circus beauty who surrenders her body to his work, but whose soul tantalizingly eludes him.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Good book... Pass it on........2007-01-01
THE ELECTRIC MICHELANGELO by Sarah Hall was a very good character story of the Bildungsroman variety. Young Cyril Parks matures through a series of life's lessons beginning with his mother's tuberculosis hotel, adolescent high-jinks, and a non-traditional apprenticeship with a scurrilous tattoo artist, Eliot Riley. From there he ventures into the world "on his own," to find love and success, or at least his own definition of both. The first half of the novel is set in a sleepy little English seaside town, and the second half in New York's Coney Island shortly before World War Two.
Sarah Hall is an up and coming master of prose, and in this work she has added delightful character descriptions reminiscent of Lawrence, Faulkner, or James.
For those experienced with the world of tattoos, or for anyone who has ever seriously considered one, this story will surely be compelling.
I bought this based on Amazon reviews and now it is a book I highly recommend.
Amazing work from a young author.......2006-09-15
This novel is breathtaking.
I found the writing to be exciting with just the right amount of embellishment and it has a beautiful flow. The subject matter is painstakingly researched and the settings are wonderfully textured. The plot is dark, complex, and fascinating. When I found out it was only the author's second novel, I was amazed. This is a masterfully crafted novel for someone so young.
This is easily one of the most intriguing books I have read in over a year. I highly recommend this book for anyone who appreciates beautiful use of language.
Sometimes disturbing, but compelling and emotionally stirring.......2006-03-30
I couldn't resist this 2005 novel when I heard it was about a tattoo artist. The fact that it was writen by Sara Hall, a Brit born in 1974 and a Booker Prize finalist with a fresh new voice in literature, made it even more appealing.
From the very beginning I was captivated. Ms. Hall paints pictures with words and stirs emotions. And most of the emotions she stirs are disturbing and sometimes bordering on the grotesque. The story is compelling too, beginning in the seaside town of Morecambe, England, where working class consumptives whose lungs were destroyed by the mills and the coal mines, often took their one-week vacation in the quest for good clean sea air. Indeed, Ms. Hall was raised a few towns away and her descriptions of a widow hotelkeeper and her young son Cy the early part of the 20th Century introduced me to a time and a place that I will never forget. I will also never forget the main character, Cy, who grows up in the town where he apprentices to a foul-mouthed hard-drinking tattoo artist with a garrulous nature and larger-than-life persona.
Later, our hero travels to America, where he sets up tattooing in Coney Island. It is the 1930s now, and Coney Island is in its heyday. Even though it was across the ocean from Cy's native Morecambe, it was a similar seaside resort catering to the appetites of a working class population looking for the outrageous and bizarre as a break from their own lives of struggle during the depression. Here, Cy meets Grace who does a horse act and even manages to sneak the horse into her Brooklyn apartment. She's a refugee from war-torn Europe, her background is a mystery and she, too, is larger than life. She wants an outrageous total body tattoo, and this act, with all its needles and inks and pain, is described in exquisite detail as an intimate connection between these two potential lovers. How it all plays out is not what I expected. There's an act of violence. There's an act of revenge. And then there are the years that pass.
Eventually, I was left with a feeling of discomfort as well as completion. And I was also left with the feeling that Sara Hall is an extremely talented writer and that we will hear a lot more about her in years to come. Naturally, The Electric Michelangelo is not for everyone. But if you like a novel with a fine writing style, in-depth complex characters and a sense of looking at weird and offbeat side of history, you'll love this book.
Overcast skies in coastal towns.......2006-02-25
If you like Dickensian writing, then this will be a good read for you. Fascinating story, though dark. Meticulously written. I found myself slogging through this novel with some unresolved plot around Riley Eliot, Cy's mentor and Renna Parks, his mother and with Grace. It is a book to be read slowly and savored with a pint. There are gaps in the timeline...time at war, recovering from wounds, and Cy reminiscing on unstated sinister deeds.
A Rare Gem.......2005-12-18
This is without a doubt one of the finest novels I have ever read. The writing is pure heaven, the metaphors and similes are creative divinity--where does she get them? She is so highly gifted and so young that she can look forward to a wonderful career and you can be sure that I will follow her progress.
Yes the novel can be heavy going at times but the beauty of her story and her talent as a writer just kept me wanting more and I earmarked so many passages because they were the finest, among the best poetry that I have ever read, her imagination and facility with language is stunning, not to mention the level of research that she did.
A wonderful and rare performance--Bravo!
Book Description
Jill Ciment’s writing has been called “luminous . . . sad, affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) and “rich in observation and insight” (Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times).
Now in her new novel, her third, Jill Ciment turns her eye to a painter’s world in the early years of the twentieth century and tells the story of an American woman, an acclaimed artist who’s been stranded on an island for thirty years.
The novel opens in New York in the 1970s. Sara Ehrenreich has returned to New York to much fanfare—Life magazine has arranged for her return and is doing a big feature on her. Sara had been living on a remote speck in the South Pacific for three decades, and she has returned to the city of her childhood and early adulthood, a city made totally different by thirty years of technological and social change.
As Sara experiences all of the sensations of entering a new world, the novel flashes back to tell the story of her life, of herself at eighteen, a Lower East Side shopgirl meeting the man who changes the course of her life—Philip Ehrenreich, a banker’s son and revolutionary, an avant-garde artist who
hasn’t made art in years.
Philip introduces Sara to everything from Dada to Marx, from free love to automatic drawing, from trayf to absinthe. Philip sees her art as his chance to create by proxy. They fall in love, marry, and form a collaboration, and by the late 1920s, she takes her place among a small group of famous American Modernists.
As the Depression hits and his family money and her corps of collectors vanish, Philip and Sara are forced to embrace the proletarian life that he had romanticized and that she had fled. In desperation, they sell what is left of his prized collection of Oceanic masks, and their lives are forever altered when one of Philip’s patrons hires him to collect masks in the South Seas.
Sara and Philip book passage on a Japanese ship that drops them off on Ta’un’uu, an island famous both for its masks and its full-body tattooing. The ship that was to pick them up never returns, bewilderment turns into panic, then resignation, and, finally, to a peace neither husband nor wife has known before. When the Second World War breaks out months later and Philip and half the men of the island are killed by Japanese soldiers, Sara turns to her painting for salvation. She learns the art of tattooing and begins the painting that will be her masterpiece—the tattooing of her own body.
A beautifully written novel, powerful in its portrayal of the world it creates and the ideas it is taken up with—ideas of immortality through art, and of the here-and-now-ness of life and experience.
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tattoos, artists, who could ask for more?.......2007-07-20
well, I'm an artist and I have tattoos so I was drawn to this book....BUT, believe me, it's so much more than that. Anyone who loves Andrea Barrett's writing or "The Life of Pi" will love this book. Ciment is a visual poet with the ability to create a believable world from unbelievable circumstances; her writing has the clarity of waking up very suddenly from a dream in the middle of the night. I absolutely loved this book...another one for my personal library.
Loved It.......2007-05-06
This book is nothing like I expected it to be based on the title. In fact, the title is pretty much the only thing I would criticize because the book has nothing to do with the tattoo artist of contemporary culture.
This book is extremely well written, engaging from the start, and will leave you wanting more when the novel ends. I was impressed by the way Ciment weaves philosophical ideas into the character development, making this a deep and thoughtful story that will touch you in many ways. I loved this book and recommend it to anyone who's interested.
Fantastic story..........2007-01-22
I work in a library and this book wasn't checked out once in a year. So I decided to read it before it got relegated to the give away bin...well I'm glad I did! This was a riveting story. I'm not sure why but this book reminded me of Life of Pi, a favorite of mine. Maybe it's because of marooned theme. Tattoo artist was just different and full of imagery. I highly recommend it. I find that I'm still thinking about it after having finished it; a rare occurrence for me.
Mesmerizing novel.......2006-07-07
Exquisite writing that reminded me of Fugitive Pieces. I wish I could have read it in one sitting because it is consuming and transporting. As other reviewers mentioned, Ciment presents a unique vision in this novel. Not so much an exploration of the themes of art, home, cultural dislocation, but a dream of them. Hard to imagine being unmoved.
Images flew to my mind.......2006-04-11
What is home? What is culture? How adaptable are we - at what point can we no longer adapt? What is beauty and what is art - imagine a beach full of living drawings, standing side by side in welcome.
I love how the cover of this book is sparse as opposed to the story which filled my mind with amazing images - images that moved and a still life of moments to be remembered,pain, sorrow, joy and tenderness.
As other reviewers have mentioned, this is a book that will stay with the reader for a long time.
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The first book to reflect the global wave of enthusiasm for all forms of body decoration.
Along with tattooed celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, men and women around the world are embracing body decoration. If Chanel jewelry is out of reach except to the few, asking for Chanel—or Gucci—tattoos has become the new craze. Nose rings have entered the boardroom, and navel piercing or tattoos at the base of the spine are de rigueur.
Ultraviolet face and hair paint, hair extensions, bleached crew cuts, henna design on hands and feet, ornaments made from found objects—the new creative options give both the single-minded makers of style and the more uncertain majority the opportunity to join in.
Ted Polhemus shows how body adornment has been natural to all peoples until the modern period, and why we are now reverting to our roots. After analyzing the various forms of decoration, he shows how we are influenced by the exotic, drawing on tribal or Far Eastern models; the naturalness of artifice and the artifice of the natural look; and how body decoration makes us masters of our own identities.
The photographs, taken by the talented young team of UZi PART B, reveal key designs and creative techniques. A practical advice section, specially commissioned from Betti Marenko, includes body preparation, healing times, and safety tips, and provides a valuable guide for those acquiring a tattoo or piercing. 200 color illustrations.
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- wonderful text, questionable photos
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The New Tattoo notecards
Dolce & Gabbana
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Few people are ambivalent where tattoos are concerned-reactions range from apprehension and revulsion to curiosity and fascination. But the ever-increasing force of true artists at work in the tattoo realm testifies to the tattoo's newfound popularity. Tattoos by renowned artists in the medium are now collected on people's bodies like paintings on a wall, the equivalent of priceless modern masters in the art world. The streets have become a mobile art gallery offering glimpses of elaborate patterns, intricate faux jewelry, fantasy creatures, and images appropriated from traditional painting. Motivated perhaps by the desire to possess something utterly unique and enduring, many devotees of the art consider their tattoos a defiant and completely personal expression. In this unusual collection, four striking examples of the tattooist's art have been transformed into shockingly original notecards that will add a touch of fascination to any correspondence. These four striking notecards were inspired by the book The New Tattoo by Victoira Lautman, with photographs by Vicki Berndt, available from Abbeville Press. (12 notecards, 12 envelopes, 3 each of 4 images, 5 x 5")
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wonderful text, questionable photos.......2002-08-23
i received this book as a gift and looked first at the photos. i was disappointed to see that many of the tattoos pictured are what i, (as an educated fan, not an artist) would not consider exceptional. the work is good, some is incredible, but with all of the brilliant artists and pieces that could have been used, the selection seemed limited and at times the works poorly chosen. many of the artists used have more than one (or two or three) of their pieces used, which limits the exposure of quite a few of what i would consider "the greats."
the test, however, was exceptional. the history of tattooing is covered throughly and the modern information is very up-to-date considering the ever-changing subject matter. the book begins with an interesting and thourough introduction and follows with chapters dedicated to specific styles. the final pages are devoted to q&a's, which would be very helpful to customers new to the art.
overall, this book is a great source of information, but if you're looking for a photo gallery, you might want to look elsewhere.
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Moko or Maori Tattooing
Horatio Robley
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Peep, peep! Here comes Thomas and he’s so excited for you to meet his new friends on the Island of Sodor! Kids will love wearing the included temporary tattoos shaped like Thomas’ new and old friends and playing the cutout memory game on the back cover.
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Tattoo bonus makes this book special.......2007-01-04
My son loves Thomas. My son loves tattoos. My son love to colour. Combine them all and you have a real winner. This book is fun and creative with lots of great pictures to colour. The tattoos are fantastic, lots of selection and even many of the less "popular" engines. You won't find an assortment of Thomas tattoos like this anywhere else.
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