The Tattoo History Source Book by Steve Gilbert

The Tattoo History Source Book by Steve Gilbert

The Tattoo History Source Book is an exhaustingly thorough, lavishly illustrated collection of historical records of tattooing throughout the world, from ancient times to the present. Collected together in one place, for the first time, are texts by explorers, journalists, physicians, psychiatrists, anthropologists, scholars, novelists, criminologists, and tattoo artists.

A brief essay by Gilbert sets each chapter in an historical context. Topics covered include the first written records of tattooing by Greek and Roman authors; the dispersal of tattoo designs and techniques throughout Polynesia; the discovery of Polynesian tattooing by European explorers; Japanese tattooing; the first 19th-century European and American tattoo artists; tattooed British royalty; the invention of the tattooing machine; and tattooing in the circus.

The anthology concludes with essays by four prominent contemporary tattoo artists: Tricia Allen, Chuck Eldridge, Lyle Tuttle, and Don Ed Hardy. The references at the end of each section will provide an introduction to the extensive literature that has been inspired by the ancient-but-neglected art of tattooing. Because of its broad historical context, The Tattoo History Source Book will be of interest to the general reader as well as art historians, tattoo fans, neurasthenics, hebephrenics, and cyclothemics.

Gilbert, Steve: - Steve Gilbert is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Criminal Investigations Program at SUNY-Canton. He has a Masters Degree in Forensic Science from George Washington University. Gilbert was special agent for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (1978-1995); Forensic Administrator for Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center; instructor for FEMA's Mass Fatality Incident Response Course; forensic science/criminal justice instructor for the Army. He teaches courses on criminal investigations, introduction to criminal justice, fingerprints and impressions, communications for law enforcement, interviews and interrogations, survey of forensic sciences, medicolegal investigation of death, family victimization, crime causation, crime prevention and sex crimes. Gilbert has conducted research and published articles on forensic hypnosis, forensic analyses of cutting instruments, contrariant serial killers, Meniere's Syndrome, spatial disorientation deaths, Coup and Contrecoup head injuries and the Bertillon Anthropometric System.

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ISBN 13	9781890451066
ISBN 10	1890451061
Title	The Tattoo History Source Book
Author	Steve Gilbert
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Juno Books
Year published	2001-03-14
Number of pages	216
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