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Danzig Baldayev Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
Jake and Dinos Chapman Insult to Injury
‘Russian Criminal
Tattoo is a rare and
astonishing book’
The Daily Telegraph
‘Controversial
mavericks of
modern art’
Evening Standard
The photographs, drawings and texts which make up the Encyclopedia are
part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos compiled over 33 years in St Petersburg’s
notorious Kresty prison by one of the prison guards, Danzig Baldayev. The
tattoos were his passport into a secret world where he became something of
an ethnographer, recording the secrets of a closed society.
400 pages, 67 black & white plates, 189 illustrations, 12 cm x 20 cm,
embossed clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, £14.50 / $25.00 / f20.00,
isbn: 3–88243–920–3
Also available in German and French language editions.
In 2001, Jake and Dinos Chapman purchased a set of Francisco Goya’s
Disasters of War prints. Produced by Goya between 1810 and 1820 as an
attack on the horrors of war, and its supposed romance and idealism, this
group of 80 images has since become emblematic of art’s moral voice, as well
as a powerful template for the representation of the gross insanity of conflict.
The Chapmans meticulously ‘rectified’ their Goya prints, superimposing
cartoon faces of clowns or puppies onto figures Goya had intended as
allegories of human suffering, as the ultimate homage to Goya’s masterpiece.
With a text by Jake Chapman, 176 pages, 80 colour plates, 38 cm x 27.6 cm,
blind embossed hardcover, £35.00 / $70.00 / f50.00, isbn: 3–88243–957–2
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