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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia by Sergey Vasiliev (2004, Hardcover)

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Once upon a time, before the advent of the indie rocker and the alternative chick, before primitivism became a style trend and tattoo parlors set up shop on the good avenues, tattoos were the secret language of a restricted world, a world of criminals. The photographs, drawings and texts published here are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldayev. Tattoos were his entrance into a secret world, a world in which he acted as an ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin--these are the signs with which this hidden world of people mark and identify themselves.

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Publisher
Steidl Gmbh & Co. Ohg
ISBN-10
3882439203
ISBN-13
9783882439205
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5988549

Product Key Features

Book Title
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
Author
Sergey Vasiliev
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Folk & Outsider Art, BODYART & Tattooing, Penology
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Width
4.8in
Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Weight
14.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Edited by
Damon Murray
Lc Classification Number
Gt2346.S65
Publication Date
2004-03-02
Grade from
College Freshman
Photographed by
Vasiliev, Sergey, Sergey Vasiliev
Grade to
Up
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
391.65086927094721
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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