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(HARDY, DON ED). Hardy, Don Ed. San Francisco: Hardy Marks Publications, 1999. First Edition 1/2450. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 302pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "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, this is a magnificent chronicle of a powerful and uniquely extreme body of work". A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound 1999 Smart Art Press first edition limited to two thousand, four hundred and fifty unnumbered copies. 0945367-00-7 Inventory Number: 023970