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A place for representation, self-presentation and communication,
resistance and protest - this lavishly illustrated volume
investigates the multi-layered significance of the street in the
art of the twentieth and twenty-first century as an interface for
diverse walks of life and groups through international positions in
painting, graphics, photography, film, performance and
installation. Around 1900, the street moved into the focus of
artists in the wake of industrialisation and urbanisation as an
elemental component of life. Starting with the Futurists and the
Expressionists, who made the street a symbol for modern life full
of promises and conflicts, the subject runs like a thread through
art: as a social psychogram; as the expression of collective and
individual longings and fears; within the context of happenings or
graffiti; and currently also redefined within the framework of
ecology, sustainability and democratic movements.
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Broken Fingaz
(Hardcover)
Charlotte Jansen; Foreword by Humphrey Ocean
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"This 'Broken Fingaz' art book is so pretty, it basically doubles
up as decor."-Amy Glover, BuzzFeed Over the last two decades Broken
Fingaz have won international acclaim, emerging as one of the most
dynamic and popular street artists working today. Emerging from the
graffiti scene in Israel in the early 2000s, Broken Fingaz amassed
a huge cult following internationally, appreciated for their
"colourful and controversial" (BBC) art. Broken Fingaz's instantly
recognisable aesthetic blends high and low brow references, from
1980s punk and Neo-psychedelia to Modernist painting and Erotica.
Their D.I.Y collaborative approach - a rarity in today's
individualist, fast-paced culture - has enabled them to create
highly ambitious works, in both scale and endeavour, all over the
world: from monumental murals and installations, to intensely
detailed, award-winning animations, textile works and paintings.
They're also known for the art they've created for some of the
world's leading musicians, including Pearl Jam, U2, Blink 182, Beck
and more. This book is their first monograph and is an
unprecedented insight into the BF's innovative and multilayered art
practice, with never-seen-before works presented alongside some of
their most iconic, as well as personal texts, documents and
photographs by the artists reflecting on their journey to date. The
book is designed by celebrated Copenhagen-based studio Claus Due,
with texts by Charlotte Jansen. This monograph is a must for anyone
with an interest in contemporary art and design, street art, or
Middle Eastern culture.
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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
A celebration of the creativity of graffiti artists from all over
the world. Ever controversial, graffiti or street art has become a
significant art form and continues to evolve and transform urban
landscapes in cities around the globe. Compiled by an insider on
the New York graffiti scene, KET, this is a collection of the work
of some of the world's top graffiti artists. Showcases work from
artists such as Banksy (London), Can2 (Munich), T-Kid (New York),
Os Gemeos (Sao Paolo) and many more. Graffiti Planet is a perfect
companion to this dynamic and vibrant art form.
What's the best book ever written? What would happen if we all
stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what
actually is the best thing since sliced bread? In An Answer For
Everything, 200 of the world's most intriguing questions are
settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant
infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and
thoroughly entertained. Created by the team behind the
award-winning Delayed Gratification magazine, these compelling,
darkly funny data visualisations will change the way you think
about ... everything
A fascinating guide to decoding the secret language of the churches
of England through the medieval carved markings and personal
etchings found on our church walls from archaeologist Matthew
Champion. 'Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle
Ages.' -- The Sunday Times 'A fascinating and enjoyable read' --
***** Reader review 'Superb' -- ***** Reader review 'Riveting' --
***** Reader review 'Compelling, moving and fascinating' -- *****
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Our churches are full of hidden messages from years gone by and for
centuries these carved writings and artworks have lain largely
unnoticed. Having launched a nationwide survey to gather the best
examples, archaeologist Matthew Champion shines a spotlight on a
forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical
cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural
plans and heraldic designs. Here are strange medieval beasts,
knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed
oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead
jostle with medieval curses, builders' accounts and slanderous
comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex
geometric designs, created to ward off the 'evil eye' and thwart
the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic
shields of England's medieval nobility. Giving a voice to the
secret graffiti artists of Medieval times, this engaging,
enthralling and - at times - eye-opening book, with a glossary of
key terms and a county-by-county directory of key churches, will
put this often overlooked period in a whole new light.
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Basquiat
(Hardcover)
Leonhard Emmerling
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An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first
made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing
his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20.
Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a cult
figure of artistic social commentary, and a trailblazer in the
mediation of graffiti and gallery art. Basquiat's work drew upon
diverse sources and media to create an original and urgent artistic
vocabulary, biting with critique against structures of power and
racism. His practice merged abstraction and figuration, poetry and
painting, while his influences spanned Greek, Roman, and African
art, French poetry, jazz,and the work of artistic contemporaries
such as Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. The results are vivid, visceral
mixtures of words, African emblems, cartoonish figures, daubs of
bold color, and beyond. This book presents Basquiat's short but
prolific career, his unique style, and his profound engagement with
ever-relevant issues of integration and segregation, poverty and
wealth. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a
detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the
artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a
concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory
captions
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Subway Art
(Paperback)
Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant
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In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured
the imagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking
book documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted
subway cars in New York City. The 2009 edition of the book is now
available in a new, slightly reduced format. Henry Chalfant's
images of the trains retain their impact, while Martha Cooper's
narrative pictures tell the story. In the introductions, the
authors recall how they gained entry to the New York graffiti
community in the 1970s and 1980s and describe the techniques that
they used to photograph it. Afterwords report how the lives of the
original subway artists have unfolded, and chronicle the end of the
subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s and its unexpected rebirth
as a global art movement. This is an essential book for all fans of
graffiti, stunning photography and 1980s-cool.
If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people
who feel like they can't make art. Want to know a secret? You can!
You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence.
Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who
want to make art, but don't feel they have the skills or confidence
for other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with
color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and
often unexpected results. If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes
some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages
that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting
imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a
wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative
projects. We'll get you started with simple, focused, projects like
making a collage with only circles, where you'll learn important
concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition
successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more.
You'll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering,
and even urban and found materials in no time!
Chris Burden: Streetlamps explores the artist s work with antique
streetlamps, which he began to amass in the early 2000s. Burden
fully restored 202 streetlamps from the 1920s to create his
renowned Urban Light, which was acquired by the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. He realized four more major streetlamp sculptures in
both public and private spaces, all of which are lavishly
documented here from conception through installation.
The visual journal is a simple hand-bound notebook in which to
create, using mixed media techniques, works that serve as an
expression of the soul and create a path to healing, internal
freedom, and the sparking of passion. “Visual Journey
Journaling†is an innovative artistic language taught by Rakefet
Hadar and made up of seven elements: Intention, Magical
Coincidence, Background, Images, Lines, Color, and Text. Visual
Journey Journaling (VJJ) invites you to a fascinating world where
you will reconnect with the your hidden inner artist to create
"soul pages" using simple techniques and subtle guidelines to take
a look inside yourself. Rakefet has taught these methods for many
years, guiding even inexperienced artists to find the stories
within themselves. In the first chapter of the book you will learn
how to master the seven elements in your journal. There are many
fun exercises and a step-by-step tutorial of how to start a simple
journal. Next you will learn how to make a soul page in a
step-by-step process with the seven elements. You will explore a
variety of materials and how to work with them to find and create
your pages. You will learn to build your journal and how to bind it
into a finished book. Throughout the book and in the final section,
you'll see and find the meanings in Rakefet's stunning private art
journal pages and read her stories behind them.
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Artivism
(Hardcover)
Arcadi Poch, Daniela Poch
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Artivism, is becoming a common way of denouncing conflicts, of
being a megaphone of the unfairness, demanding more public space or
pushing political agendas; in short, to highlight what does not
work well. Artivists use art as a weapon of public and social
exigency charged with particular doses of shrewdness,
inventiveness, imagination, sense of humour and, above all, social
impact, either throughout impressive pieces or the most subtle and
invisible actions. Navigating through the curiosity, emotion and
concern of the new artivists; We walk the paths of a creativity
committed to reflection, criticism and the eternal pursuit of
social justice.
The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and
reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street
art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four
sections: History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and
Street Art; Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street
Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art; Regional/Municipal
Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and, Effects of
Graffiti and Street Art. Chapters are written by experts from
different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans
the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal
justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology,
Sociology, and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of
interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries,
and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible
to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal
justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism
studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media.
The Handbook includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the
electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.
"It is often said that great things take time and after a twelve
year hiatus from publishing, renowned artist Swoon has returned
with the must-have monograph, THE RED SKEIN." — Quiet Lunch
In 224 pages, with more than 200 colour images, this book explores
the work of Caledonia Curry, also known as Swoon, and her aim “to
bring a human presence to the street in a delicate wayâ€. Covering
her works on the street and in the studio, animation projects,
collaborations, museum installations and community-based projects,
The Red Skein is the most interesting and valuable collection of
the artist’s works. Of particular interest is “Persephone,
Medea, Hecate: Constructing a crossroads for art and
psychedelic-assisted therapyâ€, an intimate and moving text in
which Caledonia explains her background and what art means for her.
The in-depth book includes an introduction by bestselling author Dr
Gabor Mate, a Hungarian physician with huge expertise on a range of
topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development.
There are also essays by RJ Rushmore (one of the youngest and most
respected critics of street and graffiti art in the world), Melena
Ryzik (New York Times reporter who was part of a team that won a
Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual
harassment), Jerry Saltz (American art critic, senior art critic
for The Village Voice and columnist for New York magazine) and
Pedro Alonzo (Boston-based independent curator and Adjunct Curator
at Dallas Contemporary). Other contributors include Hans Ulrich
Obrist (director of Serpentine Gallery, Art curator, critic and
historian of art), Jeffrey Deitch (art dealer and curator, director
of the Moca 2010-2013) and Judy Chicago (feminist artist, art
educator and writer).
If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted
Martha Cooper to document your work-and she probably did. Cooper
has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and
usually illegal. Her first book, 1984's Subway Art (a collaboration
with Henry Chalfant), is affectionately referred to by graffiti
artists as the "bible". To create Spray Nation, Cooper and editor
Roger Gastman pored through hundreds of thousands of 35mm
Kodachrome slides, painstakingly selecting and digitizing them. The
photos range from obscure tags to portraits, action shots, walls,
and painted subway cars. They are accompanied by heartfelt essays
celebrating Cooper's drive, spirit, and singular vision. The images
capture a gritty New York era that is gone forever. And although
the original pieces (as well as many of their creators) have been
lost, these powerful photos feel as immediate as a subway train
thundering down the tracks.
Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of
rubbish, but little attention has been paid to ""litter,"" the
small trash that soils the urban pavement, like the bits of chewing
gum that some artists decorate. Talking Trash looks at refuse in
its early stages, when it is still tiny and unassuming, still lives
in the city, and has yet to grow, leave the metropolis, and
accumulate in landfills. The chapters of Talking Trash reflect upon
the anthropomorphic nature of urban refuse; upon the poetics and
semantics of micro-litterscapes and the archives of all things
discarded; upon ""Dumpsterology,"" or the history of the garbage
container as a gendered artifact dense with cultural meaning; and
upon ""dirty innocence,"" or the complex and contradictory link
that ties childhood to muck. The author also focuses on one
significant non-urban scene, the desert landscape and the clothing
and other items that immigrants discard as they make a desperate
trek across the border.
The most comprehensive monograph in print on this provocative
artist, who has helped to redefine contemporary art This thorough,
multifaceted assessment of Raymond Pettibon's entire career to date
includes nearly 700 images, contributions from important figures in
the art-historical and cultural fields, and a recent interview with
the artist. Beginning with childhood drawings, the book moves
through to his mature work, which embraces both high and low
culture.
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J R: Inside Out
(Hardcover)
Oliver Jeffers, Robert De Niro
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Artist and activist JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world,
catching the attention of people who are not typical museum
visitors. Known for plastering cities with huge black-and-white
wheatpaste photographic portraits of the people who live there, JR
won a $1 million TED Prize in 2011 with his TED Wish: to create a
large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of
personal identity into pieces of artistic work by making digitally
uploaded images into posters to display in diverse communities. To
accomplish this, JR has visited cities on nearly every continent.
Since the project s inception, approximately 200,000 people have
contributed their portraits. From the suburbs of Paris to Israel
and Palestine, and from the villages of Kenya to the favelas of
Brazil, his art is inextricably linked with activism: his art
advocates for universal women s rights, peace and equality, and
maintaining an idealism about humanity. Inside Out captures the
scope of his vision and his innovative model for creating a global
art. Packed with hundreds of images from the project, it includes
contributions about how JR s art functions as a worldwide platform
for social change, where people either participate in an existing
campaign or launch a new action in their own community. Inside Out
is a never-before-seen look at the work that is nearest and dearest
to the artist s heart and is sure to appeal not only to JR fans but
also to fans of public art and street art.
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Pop Art
(Paperback)
Flavia Frigeri
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With its bold colours, flashy imagery and ironic spirit, Pop Art
trespasses the traditional boundaries separating high from low
culture. Flavia Frigeri introduces us to a movement that focuses on
everyday objects, from its beginnings in the post-war consumerism
of America and Britain to its fascinating rise on a global scale in
the 1960s. The work of well-known artists, such as Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake, is set in dialogue
with that of Japanese Ushio Shinohara, Venezuelan Marisol and
Argentinian Marta Minujin, among others. Organized around key
themes common to all Pop Art, including advertising, politics, the
domestic realm, consumer goods, art history, celebrity culture, war
and the space race, this is an essential introduction to the
movement that transformed the `popular' into art. A reference
section includes a useful timeline, glossary of Pop terms and
suggestions for further reading.
The official art book for the video game Gears Tactics. Gears
Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the
most-acclaimed video game franchises - Gears of War. Outnumbered
and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt
down an evil mastermind who makes monsters. In this lavish book,
the full development process of the characters, weapons, armor,
enemies and environments of the game is uncovered. From initial
sketches through to beautiful final production art, the evolution
of Gears Tactics is revealed, accompanied by fascinating insight
from the artists and developers. Take a step into the war-scarred
world of Sera and experience Gears of War from a whole new
perspective.
David Zinn's amazing street drawings are created using chalk,
charcoal and found objects, and each extraordinary drawing is only
ever temporary. This book preserves Zinn's art in all its colorful,
hypnotic glory by collecting together never-before published images
of his eye-popping creations. Created over the last two years on
streets across the globe, these adorably zany and deceptively
three-dimensional characters come to life on manhole covers and
streetlamps, village squares and subway platforms. Zinn's most
frequent characters are a bright green googly-eyed monster and a
phlegmatic flying pig-but the diversity of his menagerie is limited
only by the size of the sidewalk and the spirit of the day. In a
brief introduction Zinn describes his creative process, explaining
how he seeks out everyday imperfections to situate his art-such as
sidewalk cracks and chips, tufts of weeds and sewer grates-and
brief captions describe the provenance of each work. While these
amazing drawings can no longer stop pedestrians in their tracks on
the streets, they live on in book form to mesmerize and inspire
readers of all ages.
In three guided tours, Martin Bull documents 65 London street
installations by guerilla art icon Banksy. While newspapers and
magazines the world over send their critics to review the latest
Damien Hirst show at the Tate Modern, Bull is out taking photos of
the legendary political artist's work. This collection of
provocative and intriguing examples of street art boasts gorgeous
color photos and includes graffiti by many of Banksy's peers, such
as Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le
Rat, D*face, and Shepherd Fairey. Volume one of this new edition
includes updated locations and an additional 25 photos.
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