Produkt
KlappentextDocumenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, this title describes the motifs that represent the uncensored lives of Russian criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol.
ZusammenfassungThis final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia" trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. In this title, a medieval knight is surrounded by the severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drinks vodka with God on a cloud, and the meanings of these arresting images are explained to the uninitiated eye. Accompanied by graphic photographs showing the grim reality of the Russian prison system and some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, the illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-9550061-9-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden (Leinen)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2008
Erscheinungsdatum20.10.2008
AuflageRepr.
Seiten400 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht468 g
IllustrationenIllustrated in black and white throughout
Artikel-Nr.10905163
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