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Futura-isms
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Futura; Edited by Larry Warsh
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A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist
and graffiti pioneer Futura is a living legend-a world-renowned
painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti
art and New York City's "subway school." His radical abstract work
in the street and on canvas established him as a central figure in
an important art movement that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith
Haring, Rammellzee, Lee Quinones, and Dondi White. Futura-isms is a
collection of essential quotations from this fascinating artist.
Gathered from four decades of interviews and panel discussions,
this memorable selection illuminates Futura's influences and
thoughts on his fellow artists, legal and illegal art, and the
past, present, and future. He also offers colorful memories of his
adventurous life-growing up in New York City, serving in the Navy,
touring with The Clash-and reflects on how his experiences have
shaped his art. Select quotations from the book: "Graffiti was a
way for me to exist. I wanted the world to know my name. I wanted
to be somebody." "The essence of what graffiti is, is creating this
identity and taking it to the public." "My whole life, I think,
I've been a nomad." "I was always at home in the subway system."
"People say, 'Let's play within the rules.' I say, 'No-let's break
the rules a little bit.'"
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Haring-isms
(Hardcover)
Keith Haring; Edited by Larry Warsh
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Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring
Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated
artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold
graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and grooving,
Haring's paintings, large-scale public murals, chalk drawings, and
singular graffiti style defined an era and brought awareness to
social issues ranging from gay rights and AIDS to drug abuse
prevention and a woman's right to choose. Haring-isms is a
collection of essential quotations from this creative thinker and
legendary artist. Gathered from Haring's journals and interviews,
these lively quotes reveal his influences and thoughts on a variety
of topics, including birth and death, possibility and uncertainty,
and difference and conformity. They demonstrate Haring's deep
engagement with subjects outside of the art world and his outspoken
commitment to activism. Taken together, this selection reflects
Haring's distinctive voice and reminds us why his work continues to
resonate with fans around the globe. Select quotations from the
book: "Art lives through the imaginations of the people who are
seeing it. Without that contact, there is no art." "It's a huge
world. There are lots and lots and lots of people that I haven't
reached yet that I'd like to reach." "Art is one of the last areas
that is totally within the realm of the human individual and can't
be copied or done better by a machine." "The artist, if he is a
vessel, is also a performer." "No matter how long you work, it's
always going to end sometime. And there's always going to be things
left undone." "I decided to make a major break. New York was the
only place to go." "I came to believe there was no such thing as
chance. If you accept that there are no coincidences, you use
whatever comes along." "There was a migration of artists from all
over America to New York. It was completely wild. And we controlled
it ourselves." "I couldn't go back to the abstract drawings; it had
to have some connection to the real world."
After twenty years, return to the wild world of Crash Bandicoot
with this epic behind-the-scenes look at the new Crash Bandicoot 4:
It's About Time! The Crash Bandicoot (TM) series has remained a
beloved staple of platform gaming ever since the first game's
release in 1996, The Art of Crash Bandicoot (TM)4: It's About Time
(TM) is a rich repository overflowing with interviews, quotes,
observations and anecdotes, accompanied by a treasure trove of
concept art detailing the characters and environments of the game.
Gamers of every type will cherish this all-encompassing look into
the zany, wild and unpredictable world of Crash Bandicoot (TM).
A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their
collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain
identities and political viewpoints during the past half century
The 1960s witnessed the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement,
or El Movimiento, and marked a new way of being a person of Mexican
descent in the United States. To call oneself Chicano-a formerly
derogatory term-became a political and cultural statement, and
Chicano graphic artists asserted this identity through their
printmaking and activism. !Printing the Revolution! explores the
remarkable legacy of Chicano graphic arts relative to major social
movements, the way these artists and their cross-cultural
collaborators advanced printmaking methods, and the medium's unique
role in shaping critical debates about U.S. identity and history.
From satire and portraiture to politicized pop, this volume
examines how artists created visually captivating graphics that
catalyzed audiences. Posters and prints announced labor strikes and
cultural events, highlighted the plight of political prisoners,
schooled viewers in Third World liberation movements, and, most
significantly, challenged the invisibility of Mexican Americans in
U.S. society. While screen printing was the dominant mode of
printmaking during the civil rights era, this book considers how
artists have embraced a wide range of techniques and strategies,
from installation art to shareable digital graphics. This book
shows how artists have used and continue to use graphic arts as a
means to engage the public, address social justice concerns, and
wrestle with shifting notions of the term Chicano. Uniting historic
civil rights prints and artworks by leading graphic artists working
today, !Printing the Revolution! presents a vibrant look at the
past, present, and future of an essential aspect of Chicano art.
Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
November 20, 2020-August 1, 2021 Published in association with the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Street art is part of every cityscape. By street art, we mean the
crazy and wonderful stencils, paste-ups, paintings and little
sculptures that decorate our urban landscape, catching our eyes and
surprising us with their beauty, humour or pithy comment on
society. It is, however, ephemeral and the work can disappear very
quickly or be damaged by the elements or vandalism. Through his
website, Claudelondon has documented thousands of works by artists
active in the city. Banksy has already become a household name and
the success of his movie Exit Through the Giftshop has raised the
profile of street art even further. On a state visit, Prime
Minister David Cameron gave President Obama a painting by street
artist Eine. The street art scene in London is one of the most
vibrant in the world attracting not only local artists, but also
artists from other countries. Street art galleries are popping up
everywhere and attracting lots of visitors. Guided street art walks
are appearing in major cities in the UK, the US and other
countries.This book will cover over 150 artists and include around
275 photos.While including some of the more established street
artists such as Eine, Invader, Banksy, Roa, David Walker and Swoon,
the author also includes some of the new generation of street
artists like Stik, Public Spirit, Xylo, Elbow Toe, Ludo, T. Wat
among others who create wonderful quirky pieces that deserve a
wider audience. A must have for anyone interested in street art,
urban street culture or contemporary art.
ROMA OMNIA VINCIT is the first book from Roman street artists JB
Rock and Diamond. It has been done in a flip over style with two
covers, on one side Diamond, on the other JB Rock. They are friends
and collaborators and they work both together and alone. Each
artist has his own technique, style, and perspective, however their
work on the street often parallels the other. Their work is a true
reflection of their street art attitude, which can be seen in their
style and dedication to their work and designs. The process of
creation can be followed from conception in the studio to the
adhesion to the walls, which passes through the realization of the
poster and stencil techniques. This leads to the meanderings of
Street Art, not only a mere practice but also in its execution. The
two artists and their two different approaches lead to questioning
the values and the differences between exposition in a gallery and
position on the street. The book, in its flip over style can be
read from either direction, front to back it focuses on the work of
one artists and from back to front on the work of the other. In the
middle the works are fused together in critical texts that explain
and contextualize this movement in an amplified vision that
comprehends the landscape of contemporary art.Their art nouveau
inspiration, mixed with decorative icons and rugged style, often
comprised of exquisitely tattooed ladies who have been transported
to a 1920s beauty pageant or transformed into Ancient Roman icons
that recall the history of the Eternal City. This book contains
something extremely new for street art lovers to understand and
experience.
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Basquiat-isms
(Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Basquiat; Edited by Larry Warsh
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A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist
and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of
the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the
interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated
painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings,
notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and
creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms
is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of
urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable
selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and
written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his
artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban
life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic,
and enigmatic, Basquiat's words, like his art, continue to
resonate. Select quotations from the book: "I cross out words so
you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you
want to read them." "I think there are a lot of people that are
neglected in art, I don't know if it's because of who made the
paintings or what, but, um . . . black people are never really
portrayed realistically or I mean not even portrayed in modern
art." "Since I was 17, I thought I might be a star." "The more I
paint the more I like everything." "I think I make art for myself,
but ultimately I think I make it for the world."
This visually rich survey - the first of its kind - showcases the
work of over 200 artists and celebrates the explosion of street art
in Africa over the last decade. Including twelve in-depth
interviews with street artists active in Africa today as well as
coverage of the continent's major street art projects, collectives
and festivals, it takes the reader on an introductory tour of the
many African street art scenes, with a deeper focus on the most
prominent players in Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and
Tunisia. Topics and projects covered include the monumental project
Murais da Leba in Angola, which saw 6,000 square metres of wall
covered by local graffiti and visual artists in the Serra da Leba
mountain range; the cultural influences and idiosyncrasies of
individual street art scenes, and how they mesh with local
communities; and eL Seed's project 'Perception', a huge multi-part
mural stretching across more than fifty buildings in Cairo's
Zaraeeb neighbourhood, revealing a message of hope to its
marginalized community in the artist's distinctive 'calligraffiti'
style. Text commentaries elaborating on styles and processes, and
social and cultural context, are peppered throughout the book,
giving the reader further insight into a wealth of striking
contemporary visual cultures - and helping make this a must-have
for street art fans and practitioners.
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Entropy
(Hardcover)
Vhils
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Entropy, from the Greek 'entrope', the action of transforming
itself at random...For the first monograph in English of the
Portuguese artist, Alexander Farto - aka Vhils - it is an
emblematic title indeed. The artist's aim, in carving portraits of
anonymous persons on the degraded walls of our modern cities, is
not only to give a second life to these abandoned mural supports
but also to bring to light ordinary citizens roughly treated by a
society progressing at a fast speed and leaving them out. Hence, in
giving visibility to things and beings whose elimination is
programmed, Vhils explored a new creative path. Giving up the
graffiti, he doesn't use the wall as the simple support of his art
expression anymore but reaches for the very essence of it. His
tools are now the chisel, the jackhammer, even some explosive
devices, but no longer the aerosol, to successively reveal the
various strata hidden under the surface of the wall and generating
human figures hollowed or in relief.But Vhils also works indoors
using metal, wood, polystyrene or cork, testing out a new technique
each time, like laser scraping the 'crust' of layered advertising
posters for the purpose of creating strange palimpsests from which
urban shapes and human faces appear here again. All in all, Vhils's
work is here to make visible the obvious and less obvious links
existing between a city and its inhabitants, and to express the
need of preserving, in 'the sound and fury', what makes us human
beings.
In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced
music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law.
Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people
who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms of art
and music. It started in in small, sweaty clubs but such was the
popularity that soon enormous Raves, with tens of thousands of
people, were common. 'House' music and illegal drug ecstasy were
the driving forces behind what turned into a global phenomenon.
Events that started as secretive nights in underground clubs, with
word-of-mouth advertising grew from one-off take-overs of unusual
venues into huge open land-based events. Pager and telephonic
communication became the medium of message-passing, and flyers were
key to it all: informing the right people about the right place at
the right time. Chelsea Berlin was there from the beginning,
attending many of the now legendary events, from Club Shoom to
Energy and beyond. In Rave Art, the whole exciting movement is
documented through the flyers that were handed out freely (often
privately) to inform partygoers of the next venue. Flyer design
became an artform, and this book contains hundreds of the most
significant and rare examples from Chelsea's huge collection.
Together with personal reminiscences and quotes from famous,
infamous and not-so-famous attendees, Rave Art paints a vivid
picture of what is probably the last significant youth culture
movement of modern times.
Book three in a series celebrating the phenomenon of street art in
the world's greatest cities. A photographer's view of Rio De
Janeiro's transient street art scene. Celebrating the vibrancy,
creativity and colour of the movement and documenting a time and
place in its history. Artist's work include Wark Rocinha, NATA,
Vida One Love, MEMI, Cranio and Panmela Castro with many more both
celebrated and unknown. These books show the colour, detail and
skill in these works, showcasing the talents of these contemporary
artists.
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Gorey's Worlds
(Hardcover)
Erin Monroe; Contributions by Robert Greskovic, Arnold Arluke, Kevin Shortsleeve
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An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped
writer and illustrator Edward Gorey The illustrator, designer, and
writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal,
and slightly sinister drawings. While he is perhaps best known for
his fanciful, macabre books, such as The Doubtful Guest and The
Gashlycrumb Tinies, his instantly recognizable imagery can be seen
everywhere from the New Yorker to the opening title sequence of the
television series Mystery! on PBS. Gorey's Worlds delves into the
numerous and surprising cultural and artistic sources that
influenced Gorey's unique visual language. Gorey was an inveterate
collector--he called it "accumulating." A variety of objects shaped
his artistic mindset, from works of popular culture to the more
than twenty-six thousand books he owned and the art pieces in his
vast collection. This collection, which Gorey left to the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art upon his death, is diverse in style,
subject, and media, and includes prints by Eugene Delacroix,
Charles Meryon, Edvard Munch, and Odilon Redon; photographs by
Eugene Atget; and drawings by Balthus, Pierre Bonnard, Charles
Burchfield, Bill Traylor, and Edouard Vuillard. As this book shows,
these artistic pieces present a visual riddle, as the connections
between them-to each other and to Gorey's works-are significant and
enigmatic. The essays in Gorey's Worlds also examine the artist's
consuming passions for animals and ballet. Featuring a sumptuous
selection of Gorey's creations alongside his fascinating and
diverse collections, Gorey's Worlds reveals the private world that
inspired one of the most idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth
century. Exhibition Schedule: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
February 10 - May 6, 2018
The second book in a series celebrating the phenomenon of street
art in the world's greatest cities. A photographer's view of
Berlin's transient street art scene shot over a two year period
from 2014. Celebrating the vibrancy, creativity and colour of the
movement and documenting a time and place in its history. Artist's
work include Thierry Noir, Jimmy C, El Bocho, Plotbot Ken, Victor
Ash and Alaniz with many more both celebrated and unknown. These
books show the colour, detail and skill in these works, showcasing
the talents of these contemporary artists.
This is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis's
successful transition from the subways to international studios and
galleries. Follow his 30+ year career from his days as a teenage
graffiti writer to his current life as a professional painter,
mentor, and family man. This book, with more than 250 photographs,
is a journey tracking the seminal moments in Daze's life that
shaped his art. View his aesthetic evolution, from "Graffiti High"
(New York's High School of Art and Design) and an "unsanctioned"
street art phase to exhibitions with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel
Basquiat. Train photos from the 1970s and '80s, a broad
representation of Daze's studio and mural works, and personal
photos guide the reader through an artistic portfolio spanning five
decades. Contributions by graffiti writer Jay "J.SON" Edlin and
essayist Claire Schwartz, and a foreword by graffiti historian and
chronicler Sacha Jenkins, complete this volume.
The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn is the ultimate gallery of thehotly
anticipated new IP from Guerrilla Games (Killzoneseries). It
focuses on the stunning artwork used to developthe game, and
includes over 300 images, sketches, andconcept art, commentary
throughout from the artists andcreators. This is an in-depth
insight into a world asbeautiful as it is dangerous.
Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie
at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in
many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the
same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete
alphabets. Claudia Walde has spent over two years collecting
alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries with a view to showing
the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the
graffiti and street art cultures. All of the artists have roots in
graffiti. Some are world renowned such as 123 Klan (Canada),
Faith47 (South Africa) and Hera (Germany); others are lesser known
or only now starting to emerge. Each artist received the same
brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the
limits of a single page of the book. How they approached this task
and selected the media with which to express their ideas was
entirely up to them. The results are a fascinating insight into the
creative process.
An introduction to the world of street art. A colourful combination
of eye-catching imagery and well-informed commentary, it is a
thought-provoking presentation to this hotly topical subject.
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