Needle work : a history of commercial tattooing in Canada / Jamie Jelinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jelinski, Jamie, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tattoo artists--Canada--History--19th century.

Tattoo artists.

Tattoo artists--Canada--History--20th century.

Tattooing--Canada--History--19th century.

Tattooing.

Tattooing--Canada--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In 1891, J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients. From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours to the United States, England, and Japan as he traces the evolution of commercial tattooing in Canada over more than one hundred years. Needle Work offers insight into how tattoo artists navigated regulation, the types of spaces they worked in, and the dynamic relationship between the images they tattooed on customers and other forms of visual culture and artistic enterprise. Merging biographical narratives with an examination of tattooing's place within wider society, Jelinski reveals how these commercial image makers bridged conventional gaps between cultural production and practical, for-profit work, thereby establishing tattooing as a legitimate career. Richly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, Needle Work provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"What Happened in the Tattoo Shop?": Regulation and Resilience across Canada, 1881-1989

Who and Where was "Sailor Joe"? Media, Amusement, and Investigation by the FBI and RCMP, 1887-1981

"Samples Can be Seen on the Premises": Changing Spaces in Victoria and Vancouver, 1891-1983

"To Heighten the Effect": Relations between Visual Art and Tattooing in Halifax, 1895-1979

"An Artist's View of Tattooing": Aba Bayefsky's Portraiture from Toronto and Japan, 1970-1995.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jelinski, Jamie. Needle work.

ISBN:

9780228021988

0228021987

OCLC:

1419789515

Publisher Number:

90100599871