Visual Rhetoric

Foss, S. K. (2004). Rhetorical Criticism. Long Grove: Waveland Press.

Heywood, I., & Sandywell, B. (Eds.). (1999). Interpreting visual culture: Explorations
______in the hermeneutics of the visual. New York: Routledge.

Rampley, M. (Ed.). (2005). Exploring visual culture: Definitions, concepts, contexts.
______Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


Cultural Studies

DeMello, M. (2000). Bodies of inscription: A cultural history of the modern tattoo
______community. Durham: Duke University Press.


Rush, J.A. (2005). Spiritual tattoo: A cultural history of tattooing, piercing,
______scarification, branding, and implants. Berkeley: Frog, Ltd.


Sanders, C. R. (1989). Customizing the body: The art and culture of tattooing.
______Philadelphia: Temple University Press.


General Reference

Green, T. (2005). Ink: The not-just-skin-deep guide to getting a tattoo.
______New York: Penguin.

Krakow, A. (1994). The total tattoo book. New York: Warner Books.


Tattoo History

Atkinson, M. (2003). Tattooed: The sociogenesis of a body art. Toronto:
______University of Toronto Press.


Caplan, J. (2000). Written on the body: The tattoo in European and American history.
______Princeton: Princeton University Press.

DeMello, M. (2000). Bodies of inscription: A cultural history of the modern tattoo
______community. Durham: Durham University Press.



Gray, J. (1994). I love Mom: An irreverent history of the tattoo. Toronto: Key
______Porter Books Limited.

Mascia-Lees, F. E., & Sharpe, P. (1992). Tattoo, torture, mutilation, and adornment:
______The denaturalization of the body in culture and text. New York: State
______University of New York Press.



Mifflin, M. (1997). Bodies of subversion. New York: Juno Books.


Parry, A. (1933). Secrets of a strange art. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Rush, J. A. (2005). The spiritual tattoo: A cultural history of tattooing, piercing,
______scarification, branding, and implants. Berkeley: Frog.


Sanders, C. R. (1989). Customizing the body: The art and culture of tattooing.
______Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Scutt, R.W.B., & Gotch, C. (1974). Art, sex, and symbol: The mystery of tattooing.
______New York: A.S. Barnes and Company.