The GV ART AND REVIEW BOOK creatively captures the Artistic Genius rendered upon the abandoned building walls and alley ways of Los Angeles, CA by LA's finest Graffiti Artists. The year was 1995 and Urban Hieroglyphics was in full effect. LA style masters blew up the boring monochromatic and beige walls of the city with artistic pride and innovative personal style. Daring and talented young Graffiti Writers represented Los Angeles, West Coast with a dazzling array of Graffiti Art masterpieces..."pieces" for short. Complex wild-style design patterns, roll calls and strung out graphic characters all complimented the innovative, fresh and unique individual letter styles. Graffiti Writers from numerous crews "got up" like at no other time in LA's history. The venues were secondary, whether presented on canvas at Underground Art Galleries, multi-mix installatiions, legal murals or the many back alleys and graffiti yards... the work was hardly academic. "In Los Angeles we have some of the best Artists in the world...if not the best " ---Nerv, Artist. This historical Art Book is based upon the multi award-winning documentary "Graffiti Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall." GV ART AND REVIEW BOOK includes the Art, Media Reviews, Artists Interviews, Outtakes and the complete "Graffiti Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall" shooting script. A must-have for anyone interested in contemporary Art - Highly educational Perfect for Schools and Libraries. "Ready or Not, Graffiti Art is the next Great Art Movement after Pop Art." ---Bob Bryan, Filmmaker

CAFAM Granny Squared is a public art project that brought together 500 crocheters from 25 countries who made 14,000 granny squares to transform the facade of Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum and make a statement about craft, art and institutional identity."

photos of the making of ascention(screened at cannes short film corner), goin ape( rape rvenge film funded by c.al.. q.), road movie, and solstice moon- films by toly ak, a collaboration with photographer nicholas e. w. syracuse and a bonuse scenario-reversal of fortune. cover photo n. syracuse

This is a photography book on Seattle Street Art 1993-1996.

When the term "Hip Hop" is mentioned, most people think "rap music." But Hip Hop culture is more than Rap music. Hip Hop is made up of five "elements" and Graffiti writing is one of those five elements of Hip Hop culture. This is will teach children of all ages about the origins and growth of Graffiti writing in the United States.

Art, for Seerveld, belongs to the very infrastructure of a good society, in the same way that a country's economy, transportation system, or media network do: "With a vital artistic infrastructure priming its inhabitants' imaginativity, a society can dress its wounds and be able to clothe and mitigate what otherwise might become naked technocratic deeds." Redemptive Art in Society, introduced by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, addresses the need for Christian public artistry and ways in which Christians can be stewards of art.

Bogota Street Art is the first in a series that the passionate urban art documentarian, Jacqueline Hadel, is offering to the world. This quaint book features exciting and poetic visual images from Bogota, Colombia collected over four months in 2012.

Banksy's NYC Residency was the first of its kind; he was going to attempt to put a piece a day on the streets of New York. Jacqueline Hadel was there for all of it and on October 7th, she took a picture that was used by Banksy on his official website. Here's a book with original photographs and anecdotes describing the residency from the perspective of a photographer, writer, and more than anything, a fan.

This is a stunning visual showcase of Barcelona's street art renaissance. The new concept of urban art resists being caged within the walls of abandoned factories, run down housing estates, and subway cars. Its motives are much broader than those of the movement that started more than thirty years ago - we can now speak of a new "renaissance," an explosion of creativity, new ideas, and talent with thousands of artists from all over the world who display their innovative works of art on the streets, using them as a gigantic museum.

Hailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, "Aerosol Kingdom" explores the origins and aesthetics of graffiti writings.

From a vast array of inherited traditions and gritty urban lifestyles talented and renegade young New Yorkers spawned a culture of their own, a balloon-lettered shout heralding the coming of hip-hop. Though helpless in checking its spreading appeal, city fathers immediately went on the attack and denounced it as vandalism. Many aficionados, however, recognized its trendy aesthetic immediately. By the 1980s spray-paint art hit the mainstream, and subway painters, mostly from marginal barrios of the city, became art world darlings. Their proliferating, ephemeral art was spotlighted in downtown galleries, in the media, and thereafter throughout the land. Not only did the practice of "public signaturing" take over New York City, but also, as the images moved through the neighborhoods on the subway cars, it also grabbed hold in the suburbs. Soon it stirred worldwide imitation and helped spark the hip-hop revolution.

As the artists wielded their spray cans, they expressed their acute social consciousness. "Aerosol Kingdom" documents their careers and records the reflections of key figures in the movement. It examines converging forces that made aerosol art possible--the immigration of Caribbean peoples, the reinforcing presence of black American working-class styles and fashions, the effects of advertising on children, the mass marketing of spray cans, and the popular protests of the 1960s and 1970s against racism, sexism, classism, and war.

The creative period of the movement lasted for over twenty years, but most of the original works have vanished. Official cleanup of public sites erased great pieces of the heyday. They exist now only in photographs, in the artists' sketchbooks, and now in "Aerosol Kingdom."

Ami (short for Amitai, ahh-mee-tie) Plasse is a super-prolific NYC native artist who compiled a collection of almost 2000 drawings of the moments and characters he encountered on his daily subway ride between Brooklyn and Manhattan from 2007-2011. The best are in this volume of Ami Underground.