California native artist come 90s fashion brand household name Don Ed Hardy was determined to be a tattoo artist at the age of ten and has been tattooing professionally since 1967. Fusing Asian aesthetics, traditional Japanese art, Western art history, and the imagery of surf culture, hot-rod art, and California funk, he was instrumental in developing tattooing artistic potential and fueling the late-century international tattoo boom. Tattooing the Invisible Man presents a comprehensive survey of Hardy's paintings, etchings, lithographs, drawings, photographs, and elaborate tattoos, most never before published. Exploring the wide visual/cultural spectrum of Hardy's many influences as well as the profound involvement of his work within this same spectrum, Tattooing the Invisible Man is a magnificent chronicle of a powerful and uniquely extreme body of work. in this incredibly rare book.

Title: Tattooing The Invisible Man
Publisher: Smart Art Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Good, some rubbing on the edges
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, small tear on back
Edition: 1st Edition
Size:  32 x 25 cm
Pages: 300