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Its use, a secret code in the hands of outlaws, sparked fascination and interest among numerous anthropologists, criminologists, and doctors who, following the ideas of the Italian Cesare Lombroso – father of criminal anthropology – saw tattoos as a sign of atavism and a predisposition to madness, violence, and murder, and the tattooed as oddities and mysterious beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spain, since 1888 when Rafael Salillas, our \"little Lombroso,\" displayed his collection of tattoos from native criminals, the tattooed, who were photographed and studied, sowed terror and confusion: waves of apaches with bodies covered in obscene drawings and calls for revenge arrived in cities like Madrid, Barcelona, or Bilbao, among others, while defending the most underworld bohemia. Later, militiamen and falangists hid – or directly tore off – those revealing marks (sickles and hammers, yokes and arrows on arms and chests) that could cost them their lives, and the legionnaires – a true tattooed subculture – filled their bodies with crosses, virgins, and the names of their beloved. Also quinquis, gang members, motorcyclists, and rockers were pioneers in showing those \"talking scars,\" as police and military commanders called tattoos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a century, tattoos were \"criminal\" and marginal, until in 1989, the photographer and tattooed Alberto García-Alix opened the doors of the tattoo shop and studio El Martillo de Lucifer, where its unstoppable popularization began with Mao, the legendary tattoo artist who in the eighties tattooed the US Navy in Rota, as one of its great stars. What came next we already know: tattoos and that surprising \"old school\" style became mainstream, elevated to the status of art, and lost the aura of danger from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServando Rocha, editor of this unique work in our country, researched and rescued old medico-legal treatises, police files, and numerous photographs \"lost\" in time and practically never seen, to build a visual narrative of a century of \"beautiful angels\" and \"tattooed barbarians,\" alongside spectacular criminological collections from France, Mexico, and Germany, making CRIMINAL the great illustrated book of tattooing from that brutalist Spain, the one that proudly and defiantly displayed daggers, skulls, and bleeding hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Felguera Editores","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57200777199960,"sku":"9788412466935","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788412466935.jpg?v=1777403406"},{"product_id":"algunas-cosas-oscuras-y-peligrosas","title":"Algunas cosas oscuras y peligrosas","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebels, shamans, and terrorists, among others, have hidden their faces, worn disguises, or defended anonymity for various reasons, from the sinister Vigilantes, ancient secret societies, and the first klansmen, hidden behind impressive animal masks, sporting horns and armed with knives, to the elusive Fantômas—the first great archvillain—and the disturbing beauty of Irma Vep and the vampires, the sinister smile of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s Guy Fawkes in V for Vendetta (the face, now ubiquitous thanks to Anonymous, which claimed that an idea cannot be killed), and the black balaclava of Commander Marcos or the multicolored one of Pussy Riot. 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A frightened Edmund Burke, from whom the author takes his groundbreaking theory of the “sublime” to locate the origin of modern terror, is forced to draw his sword to escape. London is in flames, and singer Joe Strummer provides the soundtrack. From there, avant-garde movements (Dadaists, Surrealists, and Situationists) parade alongside Jacobin revolutionaries, punks, serial killers, secret societies, and apocalyptic cults.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Felguera Editores S L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57200781623640,"sku":"9788493746773","price":25.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788493746773.jpg?v=1777403988"},{"product_id":"de-fuego-cercada-geografia-secreta-de-madrid-servando-rocha","title":"De fuego cercada. Geografía secreta de Madrid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book about disappearances. Practically everything that will appear (buildings, places, people) no longer exists, yet it is still there,\" Rocha writes at the beginning of this unclassifiable book, halfway between a personal chronicle, an unusual and psychogeographic guide, and a logbook. A travel diary to the edges of Madrid following the \"paths of desire,\" those spontaneously created by the passage of people or animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this walk, in a single day, an attempt is made to solve the disappearance of José Ribalta Camós, an ophthalmologist who in 1916 decided to walk in a straight line north from the Puerta del Sol. The result is a story of stories, a journey to the end of the city that at times recalls W.G. 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