Ebook: Customizing the body : the art and culture of tattooing

Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance. Introduction : body alteration, artistic production, and the social world of tattooing -- Becoming and being a tattooed person -- The tattooist : tattooing as a career and an occupation -- The tattoo relationship : risk and social control in the studio -- Conclusion : tattooing and the social definition of art -- Epilogue 2008 : body modification then and now / Clinton R. Sanders with D. Angus Vail