Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965

by Samuel M. Steward

Book Overview

Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago's tough State Street. During that time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918393760
• ISBN13: 9780918393760
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.5"