Body art & tattooing books

This groundbreaking work takes a look at the contemporary cultural trends of tattooing, piercing, implanting, and...  Read More >>

This review of body-art looks at the phenomenon from an anthropological perspective, with photographs of body painting,...  Read More >>

This gorgeous book delves into the elusive world of traditional Japanese tattooing!  Read More >>

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Written on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America from Antiquity to the present....  Read More >>

Ten whimsically rendered images: a vampire, a spider and its web, a dancing skeleton, a fire-breathing dragon, and...  Read More >>

Eight great tattoos offer strikingly realistic images of arachnids, including the black widow spider, marbled orb-weaver,...  Read More >>

Twelve realistic portraits of the jaguar, rhinoceros, howler monkey, gorilla, hippopotamus, and more. Safe and simple...  Read More >>

Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social...  Read More >>

This ethnographic study involves the exploration of Ghanaian concepts and the cultural significance of scarification...  Read More >>

Ten designs depict a Zuni symbol for the sun from a Corn Dance headdress, a Kwakiutl totem figure representing a...  Read More >>

Safe, easy-to-apply images of 10 intriguing sea creatures: narwhal, spinner, killer, great blue, humpback whales,...  Read More >>

Realistic illustrations of 8 scary marine predators: 2 different Great Whites, Thresher, Coral Reef, Nurse, and...  Read More >>

Readers can try many body adornment techniques for themselves.  Read More >>

A photographic exploration of the modern revival of piercing, tattooing, scarification, and body painting that reveals...  Read More >>

Traditional tattooing designs are depicted from the exotic Pacific Polynesian cultures of Easter Island, Hawaii,...  Read More >>

A survey of art produced and performed—often at personal and political risk to the artist—in fourteen East European...  Read More >>

The ultimate package for those who wish to express themselves with the ancient art form of tattoos (albeit temporary...  Read More >>

When you're looking to tattoo, what design would you do? From intricate Celtic knotwork patterns and geometric tribal...  Read More >>

On their travels in the Anti-Atlas mountains of southern Morocco, Annette and Marcel Korolnik-Andersch, collectors...  Read More >>

An illustrated guide to the traditional Indian art of henna body painting, which contains a recipe for mixing the...  Read More >>

Mehndi - the ancient art of painting the skin with henna - beautifies the body, rejuvenates the spirit, and celebrates...  Read More >>

Embracing a mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis,...  Read More >>

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Covers: a brief history of body art; how body art works its magic; symbols (and their meanings) used in body art;...  Read More >>