Matt Lodder

ISBN 978-0-9573-2230-1

Al Overdrive (author,inset photographer), Matt Lodder (author of introduction): No Commercial Value: The Photography of Al Overdrive. AO 2008, ISBN   978-0-9558-6710-1

Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos. HarperCollins Publishers 2022, ISBN   978-0-0084-0206-8

Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings. HarperCollins Publishers 2023, ISBN ISBN   978-0-0084-0210-5 ^[7]

Matt Lodder (author): Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art.Yale University Press 2024, ISBN   0-3002-6939-0 ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Matt Lodder (co-author): Manfred Kohrs: Vorlagenalbum des Tätowierers Horst "Tattoo-Samy" Streckenbach. IKARUS, Wedemark 2024, ISBN   3-00-076502-6

Journal articles

• Lodder, M., (2016). Visual pleasure and gonzo pornography: Mason’s challenge to convention in ‘the hardest of hardcore’. Porn Studies. 3 (4), 373-385
• Dymock, A. and Lodder, M., (2016). 'The Erotics of Injury: Remembering Operation Spanner Workshops', 10&11 September 2015, University of Essex and Royal Holloway, University of London. Porn Studies. 3 (3), 320-323
• Lodder, M., (2015). ‘Things of the sea’: iconographic continuities between tattooing and handicrafts in Georgian-era maritime culture. Sculpture Journal. 24 (2), 195-210
• Lodder, M., (2013). Art History in the Pub. Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (2), 332-338

Exhibitions

• British Tattoo Art Revealed, described as a "visionary exhibition" by anthropologist and tattoo researcher Lars Krutak, ^[11] began at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in March 2017 and toured nationwide through 2020. ^{[3] [12]}
• Skin Digging, Art Exchange/University of Essex ^[13]

References

1. Cawley, Laurence (3 February 2014). "People always say the same thing about tattoos". BBC News. BBC . Retrieved 3 April 2025.
2. Lindsey Skinner: Video: Guest curator Dr Matt Lodder introduces British Tattoo Art Revealed
3. Betts, Hannah (16 March 2017). "Move over Angelina Jolie: The secret British history of tattoos". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
4. "Public Voice Scholars". essex.ac.uk. University of Essex . Retrieved 3 April 2025.
5. Body Art: Body Modification as Artistic Practice academia.edu
6. [https://royalhistsoc.org/society-elects-233-new-fellows-associate-fellows-members-and-postgraduate-members/ "Society clects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members"]
7. Mifflin, Margot (28 February 2024). "What Dennis Rodman, Kate Moss and a 5,000-year-old Alpine iceman have in common". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
8. Jones, Dan (8 December 2024). "Tattoos by Matt Lodder review — the untold history of a modern art". The Times . Archived from the original on 28 March 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
9. Wroe, Nicholas (28 November 2024). "'Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner': how our taste for tattoos started with the rich". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
10. Forbes-Carbines, Frances (6 February 2025). "Life stories, writ large". The Critic . Archived from the original on 3 April 2025.
11. Krutak, Lars (1 March 2017). "EXHIBITION! TATTOO: BRITISH TATTOO ART REVEALED". larskrutak.com. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
12. "Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed". nmmc.co.uk. National Maritime Museum Cornwall. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
13. "New exhibition celebrates female tattoo artists". essex.ac.uk. University of Essex. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Matt Lodder publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Helen Lewis:Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre? - Meet the unconventional art historians trying to discover what it means for an image to be marked on the body. New Statesman: Interview with Gemma Angel and Matt Lodder.
• Experience: I tracked down my impostor The Guardian - 26 March 2021
• Nihal Arthanayake: Dr Matt Lodder: ‘We live in a world where we’re represented to the world as little avatars’ BBC Radio 5 live
• The art of museums. Episode 4, Paris : Musée d‘Orsay University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Matthew C. Lodder
Matt Lodder in Berlin in 2023
Known for	Art-historical methodologies to the history of Western tattooing from the 17th century to the present day.
Academic background
Alma mater	BA (Hons) French & German University of Bradford, MA Critical Theory (The Body and Representation) University of Reading PhD History of Art - University of Reading. Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory

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