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the exclusive domain of degenerate? Try telling that to all members of the royal family tattooed, the NASA scientists and cardiac surgeons

am a scholar, art historian who specializes in the history of tattooing as an art practice, so I was delighted to read the article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian the week Last weekend, in which art critic and specialist in August is the waiting time to meet old master exhibitions to lay eyes on the screen work in London Tattoo Convention in the spring in Wapping snuff. It is very rare that someone, let alone the media, taking this ancient practice, proud of gravity in terms of art.

I was a little less happy, however, reading some of the most telling comment that the article stimulated. Every time an article appears on tattoos, the few comments themselves seem to arise. They are mostly based on a sophisticated understanding of history, culture and the practice of tattooing in the West. I would like to address some of these myths on the head. Misconceptions are stubborn - some of them are over 100 years

Myth: The tattoos were confined to sailors, bikers, criminals and degenerates until recently

truth:

Vanity Fair reported that in January 1926:

"The tattoo has risen from the wild for the sailor, the sailor of the land has filtered through all social strata. Tattoo received his credentials, and are now below the t-shirt many. "

At the time of the Great Depression in the United States, the anthropologist Albert Parry reported that the customers the best tattoo artists most popular - lawyers, bankers and doctors - could not afford get a job, leaving screaming tattoo artists need to work outside the tents, as traders on the market! Even before then, the tattoos were all the rage in Victorian London, with finely decorated tattoo studios in the rarefied addresses to accommodate the girls, Jermyn Street play in society and wealthy aristocrats.

Most members of European royalty at the end of 19 were tattooed, inspired by the Prince of Wales fashion, the future Edward VII. Rumor has it that Winston Churchill was tattooed, too, and his mother was.

Myth: "You never get a real job" and "tattoos are associated not only with qualified professionals"

truth:

While they have tattoos, especially visible, either can hinder your chances of employment in certain occupations, n is certainly not the case is that of being tattooed is an obstacle, even for blue-chip works. This was the case in the 1930s as it is today: there are many NASA scientists tattoos tattoos and many lawyers. There are many cardiac surgeons tattoos tattoos and many specialists, including myself. Indeed, many media moguls tattoos (James Murdoch is tattooed) - but maybe call a "real work" pushes too far the definition

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