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A History of Tattoo Art with Dr Matt Lodder
In this episode of The Neo Historian we are joined by Dr Matt Lodder to talk about the history of tattooing as an art form and profession. Matt tells us how tattoos existed in England long before Captain Cook was said to have brought the art form to London, the influence of Yakuza gangs on Japan's Onsen rules and on how a butcher from Wapping tempted 19th century aristocrats to tattoo their own children!
Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art by Dr Matt Lodder
The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West.
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the West as a professionalized art practice for centuries. Drawing on extensive new research and unprecedented access to largely unpublished private archives of photographs, art, and ephemera, Matt Lodder offers a new perspective on the history of commercial tattooing in Europe and the United States, beginning even before it emerged as a recognizable profession in the mid-nineteenth century. In the process, he shows that the art of tattoo has long been both practiced and commissioned by individuals across economic, gender, and class divides; he also examines the stylistic trends that have shaped tattoo’s development as an art form over its history.
Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art History at the University of Essex, and one of the University of Essex' Public Voice Scholars. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, including modern and contemporary art post-1945, digital and "new media" art, and the intersections between art & politics.
Buy the book: Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269390/tattoos/
Dr Matt Lodder: University of Essex Senior Lecturer https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/LODDE23007/Matt-Lodder
Matt Lodder: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mattlodder/
Matt Lodder's Podcast: Beneath the Skin https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/beneath-the-skin/id1637122752?l=en-GB
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By Saleema Adu SmithIn this episode of The Neo Historian we are joined by Dr Matt Lodder to talk about the history of tattooing as an art form and profession. Matt tells us how tattoos existed in England long before Captain Cook was said to have brought the art form to London, the influence of Yakuza gangs on Japan's Onsen rules and on how a butcher from Wapping tempted 19th century aristocrats to tattoo their own children!
Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art by Dr Matt Lodder
The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West.
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the West as a professionalized art practice for centuries. Drawing on extensive new research and unprecedented access to largely unpublished private archives of photographs, art, and ephemera, Matt Lodder offers a new perspective on the history of commercial tattooing in Europe and the United States, beginning even before it emerged as a recognizable profession in the mid-nineteenth century. In the process, he shows that the art of tattoo has long been both practiced and commissioned by individuals across economic, gender, and class divides; he also examines the stylistic trends that have shaped tattoo’s development as an art form over its history.
Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art History at the University of Essex, and one of the University of Essex' Public Voice Scholars. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, including modern and contemporary art post-1945, digital and "new media" art, and the intersections between art & politics.
Buy the book: Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269390/tattoos/
Dr Matt Lodder: University of Essex Senior Lecturer https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/LODDE23007/Matt-Lodder
Matt Lodder: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mattlodder/
Matt Lodder's Podcast: Beneath the Skin https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/beneath-the-skin/id1637122752?l=en-GB
https://www.theneohistorian.com/
www.theneohistorian.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.