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Lodder, A M, 426118
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/399850Surname: LODDER. Given Name(s) or Initials: A M. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 426118. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 57622.218088
Item: [2016.0049.32143] "Lodder, A M, 426118
Tattoo: An Art History (Forthcoming)
No full textDespite its rich culture and aesthetic traditions, there has never before been an art history of the tattoo. Beginning with the ?discovery? of the Polynesian tattooing practices, this book traces the history of tattooing as an artistic practice in Britain ? from the first professional tattoo studio in 1870, to the present day. In this enthralling book, body art and modification expert Matt Lodder establishes a chronological survey of this oft-misunderstood and much mythologised mode of art making, from the artisanal studios of Victorian London, via the bawdy dockside spaces of the 1950s, to the seemingly ubiquitous tattoo culture of the twenty-first century. Lodder reveals how tastes and technologies have affected the type of images being tattooed; how innovations in both style and method have evolved; who the most important and influential tattoo artists were; and how tattooing has0always been a permanent fixture of the visual culture of Britain?s entire social spectrum ? from sailors and aristocratic ladies to king
Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias
No full textRevival: Memories, Identities, Utopias explores the phenomenon of revivalism in art, architecture and design from the nineteenth century to the present. Essays from leading scholars investigate the meanings and impacts of revivalism across a wide array of global contexts. The book?s three sections are prefaced by critical interventions, which consider the significance of ?nostalgia?, ?anachronism? and ?historicism? as philosophical, cultural, and artistic categories that are as productive as they are problematic. A thematic framework invites parallels between apparently disparate projects, such as resurgences of techniques or materials, medievialism, utopian futurism, empire and style, and the persistence of ?neo? in the midst of an ever-urgent quest for originality. Revivalism?s political, religious and economic dimensions are considered from a variety of perspectives, and the differing registers of revivalism are foregrounded in innovative and sophisticated ways. Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias is the first book to consider these complex processes of historical layering and the stimulating dialogues struck up between materials, objects and ideas that take place across periods and places, often with surprising and controversial results. From Neo-Victorian typography and tattooing to idyllic urban planning and divine revelations, the cultural heft of revivalism is revealed as a constant and paradoxical companion of modernity
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