<p>California native 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 has been instrumental in developing tattooing’s artistic potential and fueling the late-century international tattoo boom. Tattooing the Invisible Man presents a 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.</p> <p>300 pages, Hardcover, 12 1/2&#215;9 3/8 inches<br />553 color illustrations<br />2005<br />2nd Printing</p> <p><span class="caps">ISBN </span>#0945367007</p> <p><a href="http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/hwf/hardy.html">Exhibition Link</a></p> 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 1293 501561 Books 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 2008-04-30T17:42:21-07:00 Smart Art Press California native 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 has been instrumental in developing tattooing’s artistic potential and fueling the late-century international tattoo boom. Tattooing the Invisible Man presents a 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. 300 pages, Hardcover, 12 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches 553 color illustrations 2005 2nd Printing ISBN #0945367007 "Exhibition Link":http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/hwf/hardy.html 89.95 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 manual 1089 973261 deny 1 Buy 1 84.95 501561 true 1293 true 2008-04-30T17:42:21-07:00 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 845371 1 501561 2008-04-30T17:42:21-07:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0801/products/1293.jpg?1257360565 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 845391 2 501561 2008-04-30T17:42:21-07:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0801/products/1293b.jpg?1257360565 2007-08-03T13:43:03-07:00 845401 3 501561 2008-04-30T17:42:21-07:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0801/products/1293c.jpg?1257360565 Title