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Summary:

"Legendary American tattoo artist Ed Hardy's groundbreaking tattoos, flash, drawings, and artworks are gathered together for the first time in one brash book. Ed Hardy's (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition, this profusely illustrated survey of his life in art traces his inspirations, rooted both in traditional American tattooing of the first half of the twentieth century and in the imagery of Japan's ukiyo-e era. Hardy, raised in Southern California, became intrigued with tattoo art at the age of ten, setting up shop in his parents' den. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s, he rejected a graduate fellowship from Yale to apprentice at studios up and down the West Coast. It was his intention to rescue tattooing from its subculture, "outsider" status and elevate it to at least the level of folk art. Hardy's success at breathing new life into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs, paintings, drawings, prints, and three-dimensional work spanning fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost, Hardy's distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within West Coast and American visual vernacular, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast itself. Hardy's success at breathing new life into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs, paintings, drawings, prints, and three-dimensional work spanning fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost, Ed Hardy's distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within American visual vernacular, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast itself"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Ed Hardy and the tattoo renaissance / Joel Selvin
• Drawing embodied : Ed Hardy's East Asian art connections / Sherry Fowler with Dale Slusser
• The art education of Ed Hardy / Jeff Gunderson
• Catalogue. Kiddle flash and toy tattoos ; Getting serious about art ; Needle work ; Wear your dreams ; Themes and variations ; Ghosts ; 2000 dragons ; The immortals ; Life of a tattooer / Karin Breuer
• Appendices. Art for life: an interview with Ed Harvey / Karin Breuer.

Contributors:

Breuer, Karin , author, interviewer

Fowler, Sherry D., 1957- , author

Slusser, Dale , author

Gunderson, Jeff , author

Selvin, Joel , author

Hardy, Don Ed , artist, interviewee

Hardy, Don Ed.

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum , issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/orm, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Rizzoli editore , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Included Works:

Works [of Hardy, D.E.] (Selections)

Subjects:

Hardy, Don Ed — Exhibitions

Hardy, Don Ed — Criticism and interpretation

Hardy, Don Ed — Themes, motives

Hardy, Don Ed — Interviews

Tattooing — California — 20th century — Exhibitions

Tattooing — California — 21st century — Exhibitions

Tattoo artists — California — San Francisco — 20th century — Exhibitions

Tattoo artists — California — San Francisco — 21st century — Exhibitions

Tattooing in art — 20th century — Exhibitions

Tattooing in art — 21st century — Exhibitions

Hardy, Don Ed.

1900-2099

Themes, motives

Tattooing

Tattoo artists

Tattooing in art

Criticism and interpretation

California

California — San Francisco

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

Essays

Illustrated works

Interviews

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
"This catalogue is published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with Rizzoli Electa on the occasion of the exhibition Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin at the de Young from July 13 to October 6, 2019."--Colophon.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 27 cm

Call Numbers:

N6537.H3475 A4 2019

ISBNs:

9780847867349 (paperback)
084786734X (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019017481

OCLC Numbers:

1111684992