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1. Le droit à fleur de peau : entre protection du corps et protection de la création

Author

Rhéa Eddé

Subjects
tattoo, skin, personal autonomy, individual freedom, body protection, skin Art, Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence, K1-7720, Sociology (General), HM401-1281
Abstract

The recent enthusiasm for tattooing raises legal, ethical, sociological, and economic issues. This article questions how French law captures this phenomenon and what it reveals about the evolution of the conception of the human body in view to its transformation and exploitation as a creation. The possibilities of changing the body oscillate between two principles, that of protection and that of personal autonomy. The body, medium of an artistic work, hinders the prerogatives assigned to the author of the creation. Also, it is in the perspective of the person tattooed and under the prism of the living body through two different moments, before and after the realization of the tattoo, that this article addresses this use of the law in tension.

Published
2023

2. Tattoos as a window to the psyche: How talking about skin art can inform psychiatric practice

Author

Joseph M. Pierre, Hannah Roggenkamp, and Andrew Nicholls

Subjects
Military psychiatry, 050103 clinical psychology, medicine.medical_specialty, Tattoos, Psychopathology, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, Taboo, 050109 social psychology, Minireviews, Deviance, Psyche, Skin art, medicine, Mainstream, Psychology, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, The Symbolic, Physical exam, Western culture, Psychiatry, Deviance (sociology), media_common
Abstract

Tattooing the skin as a means of personal expression is a ritualized practice that has been around for centuries across many different cultures. Accordingly, the symbolic meaning of tattoos has evolved over time and is highly individualized, from both the internal perspective of the wearer and the external perspective of an observer. Within modern Western societies through the 1970s, tattoos represented a cultural taboo, typically associated with those outside of the mainstream such as soldiers, incarcerated criminals, gang members, and others belonging to marginalized and counter-cultural groups. This paper aims to review the more recent epidemiology of tattoos in Western culture in order to establish that tattooing has become a mainstream phenomenon. We then review psychological and psychiatric aspects of tattoos, with a goal of revising outmoded stigmas about tattooing and helping clinicians working with tattooed patients to facilitate an exploration of the personal meaning of skin art and self-identity. We suggest that as a kind of augmentation of the physical exam, looking at and talking to patients about their tattoos can provide a valuable window into the psyche, informing clinical practice.

Published
2017

3. Tattoos as a window to the psyche: How talking about skin art can inform psychiatric practice.

Author

Roggenkamp H, Nicholls A, and Pierre JM

Abstract

Tattooing the skin as a means of personal expression is a ritualized practice that has been around for centuries across many different cultures. Accordingly, the symbolic meaning of tattoos has evolved over time and is highly individualized, from both the internal perspective of the wearer and the external perspective of an observer. Within modern Western societies through the 1970s, tattoos represented a cultural taboo, typically associated with those outside of the mainstream such as soldiers, incarcerated criminals, gang members, and others belonging to marginalized and counter-cultural groups. This paper aims to review the more recent epidemiology of tattoos in Western culture in order to establish that tattooing has become a mainstream phenomenon. We then review psychological and psychiatric aspects of tattoos, with a goal of revising outmoded stigmas about tattooing and helping clinicians working with tattooed patients to facilitate an exploration of the personal meaning of skin art and self-identity. We suggest that as a kind of augmentation of the physical exam, looking at and talking to patients about their tattoos can provide a valuable window into the psyche, informing clinical practice., Competing Interests: Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest. No financial support.

Published
2017
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4. Illustrated America : freedom of expression and the democratization of tattoos in contemporary American culture

Author

Kang, Sung Pil

Subjects
skin art
Abstract

This dissertation examines the evolving democratization of tattooing and the shifting significance of tattoos in an analysis from the 1950s to the current era. Unlike previous scholarship, this study also links the democratization of tattoos to the continuous struggle over the body against state institutions--not just limiting it to the 1960s counter-culture. Often absent in other studies concerning the popularization and eventual commodification of tattoos is the "hip-hop element"; I argue that marking the skin was a logical extension of drawing attention to an "invisible generation" experiencing economic neglect and the impact from the "War on Drugs," "War on Gangs," and "War on Youths" in the 1980s. Rapper Tupac Shakur contributed to the growth and contraction of marking the body, and this is symptomatic of the discursive dialectic between the tolerance for and the backlash against civil rights in recent America history. The context of my investigation is specifically American, as I argue that decades of tattooing practices have rendered tattoos peculiarly evocative signifiers of diverse American identities. After the 1950s, marking the skin became part of the discourse over civil liberties regarding the body. My study centers on women, gays and lesbians, blacks, the military, and entertainers or professional athletes. Individuals within these groups have been among the most ardent practitioners of tattooing and among the most visible recipients of tattoos; not coincidentally, these groups have also been among the most marginalized or celebrated of Americans, often voluntarily distancing themselves from the larger American society through their commercialized tattoos and their defiantly political uses of their bodies. The primary thrust of this discussion is to identify how various groups have used tattooing to assert their self-determination or civic identities publicly, and to define themselves by writing on their bodies.

Published
2014

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