Download or read book Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos written by Matt Lodder and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now.