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TATTOO
 

The purpose of this selected bibliography is to assist Ohio State University Libraries' patrons in finding resources on Tattoos. This bibliography is organized  by type of resource.  This is not a comprehensive bibliography on Tattoos or  body modification.  For additional material and/or assistance in using any of these resources, consult a reference librarian. 

A majority of the listed  Tattoo resources are located in the Education, Human Ecology, Psychology, and  Social Work Library (EHS). An explanation of the Library Codes is provided at the end of this bibliography. Please click on the call number for the complete OSCAR catalog record. 
 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION              PRACTICE

PICTORIAL WORKS     ARTISTS

 LITERATURE    CULTURE    SOCIOLOGY

 INDICES AND ABSTRACTS      PERIODICALS    INTERNET
 
 

Skin Select



BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Author: Margot Mifflin
Title: Bodies of Subversion : A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
Call No: GN 419.15 M355 2001
Library Code: WMN

Author: Nan McNab
Title: Body Bizarre, Body Beautiful
Call No: GN419.15  M355 2001
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Ted  Polhemus
Title: The Customized Body
Call No: RC552.S4 P65 2000
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Clinton R. Sanders
Title: Customizing the Body : The Art and Culture of Tattooing
Call No: GT2345  S26 1989
Library Code: MAIN

Author: Karl Groning
Title: Decorated Skin : A World Survey of Body Art
Geschmuckte Haut. English
Call No: GT2343  G761 2002
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Arnold Rubin
Title: Marks of Civilization : Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
Call No: GT2343  M37 1988
Library Code: MAIN

Author: Amy Krakow
Title: The Total Tattoo Book
Call No: GN419.3  K73 1994
Library Code: EHS Reserve
 

PRACTICE

Author: Vivian Fernandez
Title: Body Design : Turn Your Body into a Work of Art!
Call No: GT2343  B63 1998 Kit
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Author: Kathlyn Gay
Title: Body Marks : Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification
Call No: GN419.5 G39 2002 
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Nan McNab
Title: Body Bizarre, Body Beautiful
Call No: GN419.15  M355 2001
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Huck Spaulding
Title: Tattooing A to Z : A Guide to Successful Tattooing
Call No: GN419.3 S6 1988
Library Code: EHS Spec Collections

Author: Michelle Delio
Title: Tattoo : The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration
Call No: GT2345 K44 1997
Library Code: EHS Reserve
 

PICTORIAL WORKS

Author: Jim Gerard
Title: Celebrity Skin : Tattoos, Brands and Body Adornments of the Stars
Call No: GT2345 G47 2001
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Aileen Marron
Title: Celtic Body Art
Call No: GN419.15  M27 1999
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Rosângela Rennó
Title: Cicatriz
Call No: TR647  R4155 1996
Library Code: FIN

Author: Ted Polhemus
Title: The Customized Body
Call No: RC552 S4 P65 2000
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Title: Eye Tattooed America
Call No: GT2345  E9 1993
Library Code: FIN

Author: Steve Bonge
Title: Marked for Life: A Gallery of Tattoo Art
Call No: GT2345 B658 2001
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Gregor von Glinski
Title: Masters of Tattoo
Call No: GT2345 G44 1998
Library Code: FIN

Author: Victoria Lautman
Title: The New Tattoo
Call No: GT2345 L38 1994
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Spider Webb
Title: Pushing Ink : The Fine Art of Tattooing
Call No: GN419.3 W4 2002
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Authors: Rolling Stone Magazine
Title: Tattoo Nation : Portraits of Celebrity Body Art
Call No: GT2345 T274 2002
Library Code: EHS Reserve
 

ARTISTS

Author: Spider Webb
Title: The Big Book of Tattoo
Call No: GT2345 W42 2002
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Sailor Jerry Collins
Title: Sailor Jerry Collins, American Tattoo Master : In His Own Words
Call No: GT5960 T36 C64 1994
Library Code: FIN

Author: Leonard L. St. Clair
Title: Stoney Knows How : Life as a Tattoo Artist : Tattooing Since 1928
Call No: GT5960 T362 W487 1981
Library Code: MAIN
 

LITERATURE

Authors: Kim Addonizio and Cheryl Dumesnil
Title: Dorothy Parker's Elbow : Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos
Call No: PS648 T37 D67 2002
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Author: Ray Bradbury
Title: The Illustrated Man
Call No: PS3503 R118 I4 1951
Library Code: STX

Author: Peter Trachtenberg
Title: 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh
Call No: ON ORDER
Library Code: EHS

Author: Juvenal Acosta
Title: The Tattoo Hunter :  A Novel
Call No: PQ7263 E5 C3913 2002
Library Code: EHS Stacks
 

CULTURE

Author: Takahiro Kitamura
Title: Bushido : Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo
Call No: GT2346 J3 K58 2000
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Author: Walter Kehr
Title: Color Full Pain : Tattoo Piercing
Call No: GT2345 K44 1997
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: James W. VanStone
Title: An Early Archaeological Example of Tattooing from Northwestern Alaska
Call No: QL1 F45
Library Code: BPL

Author: James G. Swan
Title: The Haidah Indians of the Queen Charlottes Islands, British Columbia : With a Brief Description of Their Carvings, Tattoo Designs, etc.
Call No: Q11 S663  V21
Library Code: RAR

Author: Sandi Fellman
Title: The JapaneseTattoo
Call No: GT2346 J3 F45 1986
Library Code: EHS Oversize, FIN, STX

Author: Donald Richie
Title: The JapaneseTattoo
Call No: GT2345 R52
Library Code: FIN

Title: Modern Primitives : An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
Call No: GN419.15 M63 1989
Library Code: FIN

Author: Hans Neleman
Title: Moko--Maori Tattoo : Photographs
Call No: DU423 T26 N44 1999
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Obara Kazuo
Title: Nanto Irezumi ko
Call No: GN419.3 O2 1962
Library Code: STX

Author: Daniel Wojcik
Title: Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art
Call No: GT495 W65 1995
Library Code: FIN

Author: Rufus C. Camphausen
Title: Return of the Tribal : A Celebration of Body Adornment : Piercing, Tattooing, Scarification, Body Painting
Call No: GN419.15 C35 1997
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Author: E. S. Craighill Handy
Title: Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing
Call No: GN670 B5
Library Code: MAIN

Author: Leslie Asako Gladsjo
Title: Stigmata : The Transfigured Body
Call No: GN419.3 S74 1992 Videotape
Library Code: WMN

Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy
Title: Tattooing in the Marquesas
Call No: GN670 .B5
Library Code: STX

Author: Steve Gilbert
Title: Tattoo History : A Source Book : An Anthology of Historical Records of Tattooing Throughout the World
Call No: GN419.3 G56 2000
Library Code: EHS Reserve

Author: Maarten Hesselt van Dinter
Title: Tribal Tattoo Designs
Call No: GN419.3 D55 2000
Library Code: MAIN

Author: Alfred Gell
Title: Wrapping in Images : Tattooing in Polynesia
Call No: GN670 G35 1993
Library Code: MAIN
 

SOCIOLOGY

Author: Jean Graven
Title: L'Argot et le Tatouage des Criminels: Etude de Criminologie Sociale
Call No: HV 6093 G7
Library Code: STX

Title: Body Piercing and Tattoos
Call No: GT2345 B63 2003
Library Code: EHS Stacks

Author: Inoue Yasuhiro
Title: Irezumi no Hanzaigakuteki Kenkyu
Call No: GT2345 I56 1949
Library Code: STX

Author: Kim Hewitt
Title: Mutilating the Body : Identity in Blood and Ink
Call No: RC552 S4 H48 1997
Library Code: MAIN, EHS Stacks

Author: Sheran K. McNiff
Title: Self-Injury and Body Modification Among College Freshmen Attending a Midsize, Comprehensive University in the Midwest [microform]
Call No: GN419.2  M35 2000 Microfiche
Library Code: EHS Microfiche

Author: A.J.W. Taylor (Antony James William)
Title: Tattooing Among Male and Female Offenders of Different Ages in Different Types of Institutions
Call No: LB1101 .G32
Library Code: EHS Journal Stacks

Author: Nikki Sullivan
Title: Tattooed Bodies : Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure
Call No: GN419.3 S85 2001
Library Code: MAIN
 

INDICES AND ABSTRACTS

AP Multimedia Archive
DATABASE

Art Abstracts
DATABASE

Design & Applied Arts Index
DATABASE

EBSCOHost Databases
DATABASE
 

PERIODICALS
     Specific
Title: Dark Skin Art : Tattoos for All Tones
Art & Ink Enterprises
5 Marine View Plaza No 207, Hoboken, NJ 07030 United States
E-Mail: tattoo1@ix.netcom.com
Phone: 201-653-2700
Fax: 201-653-7892
http://www.darkskinart.com

Title: International Tattoo Art
Butterfly Publications, Ltd.
462 Broadway, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013 United States
Phone: 212-966-8400
Fax: 212-960-9366

Title: Skin & Ink : TheTattoo Magazine
L F P, Inc.
8484 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 United States
Editorial Address: PO Box 1069, Pasadena, CA 91102 United States

Title: Tattoo : Magazine of Skin Art
Paisano Publications, Inc.
28210 Dorothy Dr, Box 3075, Agoura Hills, CA 91301 United States
Phone: 818-889-8740
Fax: 818-889-5214
http://www.easyriders.com

Title: Tattoo Flash
Paisano Publications, Inc.
28210 Dorothy Dr, Box 3075, Agoura Hills, CA 91301 United States
Phone: 818-889-8740
Fax: 818-889-4726
http://www.easyriders.com

    General
Title: Fashion Theory
Call No.:  TR679 F38
Location: EHS Journals

Title: Feminist Review
Call No.: HQ1101 F38
Location: WMN

Title: Journal of Popular Culture
Call No.: PN51 A1J6
Location: MAIN

Title: Nest
Call No.: NK2113 N37
Location: EHS Spec Collections

Title: Rolling Stone
Call No.: ML1 R65
Location: EHS Journals
 

INTERNET

Bodies of Cultures: A World Tour of Body Modification at the Museum
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Exhibits/bodmodintro.html

Body Art: Marks of Identity
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/bodyart/

SKIN DEEP
http://www.mariner.org/exhibits/tattoo/index.htm

Ta Moko
http://www.tamoko.org.nz/



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LIBRARY CODE:

EHS: EDUCATION, HUMAN ECOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL WORK LIBRARY 110 Sullivant Hall 1813 N. High Street 292-2075

BPL: BIOLOGICAL  SCIENCES & PHARMACY 102 Riffe Bldg  496 W 12th Ave  292-1744

FIN: FINE ARTS LIBRARY 035L Wexner Center 27 West 17th Avenue Mall  292-6185

MAIN: MAIN LIBRARY Circulation Desk 1858 Neil Avenue Mall  292-6154

WMN: WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARY 228 Main Library 1858 Neil Avenue Mall  292-3035

RAR:  RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPT  327 Main Library  1858 Neil Ave Mall  292-5938

STX: BOOK DEPOSITORY  c/o Main Lib Circulation  1858 Neil Ave Mall  292-6154


A SPECIAL THANKS TO DAVE GURA
FOR
PERMISSION TO USE HIS TATTOO FOR BOOKMARK BACKGROUND
AND
PROVIDING INSPIRATION FOR THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Comments: Leta Hendricks, Collection Manager for Human Ecology