RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO

This beautifully produced boxed set of 53 postcards contains stunning images from the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopae dia series of books. These hugely popular and influential books document the Russian criminal tattoo, revealing its hidden meanings. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, whose tattoos were a secret tribal language, a method o f showing status within the prison system. By turn they are extraordinary, artful, explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting a s they d...[Llegir més]