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Pushing ink : the fine art of tattooing / [Spider Webb] with Marco Vassi ; photography by Charles Gatewood and Spider Webb ; illustrated by Spider Webb.
LIBRA Special GN419.3 .W4 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Spider, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tattooing.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 4880 Lower Valley Road, [2002]
- Summary:
- The bodies of these tattooed men and women stand in testament to an ancient art, long forbidden in the West. It is a celebration of the art, the artists, and the bold canvases who dance across these pages with unabashed joy in their beautifully adorned flesh.
- Notes:
- "A Schiffer Book"
- "This was possibly the first book to treat tattoo as a fine art when it first came out in 1979. Virtually no tattoo books at that time treated it seriously."--Preface.
- Originally published: Spider Webb's pushing ink. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1979. With new preface.
- ISBN:
- 0764315390 :
- 9780764315398
- OCLC:
- 49230253
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