Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' Until now.

Publisher: William Collins
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.12w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780008402105

About the Author

Dr Matt Lodder is the UK's foremost expert on the history of tattooing. A Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, his research primarily concerns the history of Western tattooing from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Matt has given invited lectures at museums around the world, and has written about tattooing for publications including the Guardian and History Today. His major exhibition, 'British Tattoo Art Revealed', toured the UK from 2017-2020.