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This critically acclaimed collection of very short stories about
postwar Buffalo, New York - illustrated in colour with the author's
own collages - is now available in paperback. It all began in
Buffalo between World War II and the Korean Conflict, as it was
called, when the guys would meet up late at night in a diner for
their brand of fellowship. They were mostly high school graduates
in their late teens and early twenties, the sons of immigrant
families. It didn't matter; there was little trace of that showing.
They didn't look or act alike, but they had a sense of who they
were, sort of proud for some reason, without much to show for it.
From the introduction, at the centre of the group was Arnie. He
might have been selling real estate for the time being, but he
always had his eye on the next thing - Christmas tree farming,
perhaps, or uranium mining. Then there were Moe, who had a gas
station and garage, and Barney, who drove a truck for Pop's Pies.
Observing it all was an art student working odd jobs to afford his
paints and brushes - Phil. In 110 vignettes about Arnie and the
guys, Philip Sultz presents a fictionalised portrait of the
working-class Buffalo of his youth. He also vividly sketches the
downtown Manhattan of those days, where his protagonists are drawn
to study and to work. These stories - by turns funny and poignant,
perfectly told and full of telling details - evoke not only the
life of two cities, but the atmosphere of postwar America. Even in
shadow of McCarthyism and the atom bomb, it was a time emblematic
of possibility and change. Lake Effect Days is illustrated with
colour reproductions of Sultz's critically acclaimed collages,
which echo the text in their formal perfection and add new layers
of allusion.
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.
For fans of Mythographic, spooky, gory art that will haunt your nightmares. Enter a new dimension where creativity and darkness collide.
Gather your colored pencils and your courage and explore the haunting beauty of Alessandro Valdrighi's Mythogoria: Gory Underworld. Inside you’ll find a thrilling wonderland of surreal settings and bold characters drawn to life. Choose from more than 45 uniquely sinister pieces of art featuring vengeful ghosts, deadly villains, bloodthirsty beasts, and aliens bent on destruction.
Let your imagination run wild as you add a frightful touch of color to this mysterious, spine-tingling collection.
- Bring your artistic sensibilities to the dark side
- Color your way through a pulse-pounding adventure of horror and mayhem
- Take a break from the normal and make freakishly fun art to display or share
"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared
kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs,
marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill
seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard in
America and making the city our own. Being 'writers' gave us
something to live for and 'going all city' gave us something to
strive for; and for some of my friends it was something to die
for." In the age of Banksy, hipster street art, and commissioned
wall murals, it's easy to forget graffiti's complicated and often
violent past in the United States. Though graffiti has become one
of the most influential art forms of the twenty-first century,
cities across the United States waged a war against it from the
late 1970s to the early 2000s, complete with brutal police task
forces. Who were the much-maligned taggers they targeted?
Teenagers, usually, from low-income neighborhoods with little to
their names except a few spray cans and a desperate need to be
seen--to mark their presence on city walls and buildings even as
their cities turned a blind eye to them. Going All City is the
mesmerizing and painful story of these young graffiti writers, told
by one of their own. Prolific LA writer Stefano Bloch came of age
in the late 1990s amid constant violence, poverty, and
vulnerability. He recounts vicious interactions with police;
debating whether to take undocumented friends with gunshot wounds
to the hospital; coping with his mother's heroin addiction;
instability and homelessness; and his dread that his stepfather
would get out of jail and tip his unstable life into full-blown
chaos. But he also recalls moments of peace and exhilaration:
marking a fresh tag; the thrill of running with his crew at night;
exploring the secret landscape of LA; the dream and success of
going all city. Bloch holds nothing back in this fierce, poignant
memoir. Going All City is an unflinching portrait of a deeply
maligned subculture and an unforgettable account of what writing on
city walls means to the most vulnerable people living within them.
MadC: Street to Canvas is the first monograph on the world-renowned
contemporary artist and muralist MadC (Claudia Walde), whose
practice moves dynamically between the street and the studio to
capture the energy of painting and test the heights of its
possibility. For more than two decades - from her beginnings in the
1990s as a graffiti artist in the local scene of Bautzen in east
Germany to largescale public murals on an international level -
MadC has captivated global audiences with her distinctive style,
characterised by abstract compositions of bold, sweeping lines and
transparent layers of vivid colours. Writer and curator Luisa Heese
charts the artist's career, exploring MadC's immense body of work
in locations across more than 35 countries. Over 200 artworks and
personal photographs illustrate the book, showcasing her unique use
of colour and the spontaneous movement of lines produced by spray
cans and brushstrokes. From street to canvas, MadC adorns each
surface with a vivacity that surpasses cultural barriers.
Traversing private and public spaces, her work constantly blurs the
lines between street art and fine art. What is revealed is the
potential for art to be an inclusive and universal language to
connect and inspire people and communities around the world.
Chile has long been a centre for radical propaganda painting. As
early as 1940 leading Mexican and Chilean artists, including David
Alfaro Siqueiros, Fernando Marcos and Gregorio de la Fuente, were
painting murals in Chile. Today, Latin American street art is as
innovative as any in the world, and Chile plays a leading part.
Much as Spain witnessed a boom in the arts post-Franco, so, since
the end of Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, Chile has embraced an
era of new freedoms. Chile has made up for lost time. The
contemporary artists and graffiteros shown on these pages have
their roots in Latin American propagandistic murals, but look
forward. Artists such as Bomber West, Charqui Punk, Dana Pink,
Elodio, Inti, Piguan, Pussyz Soul Food, Ritalin Crew, Vazko and
Yisa are informed by Latin American, European and North American
(especially West Coast) art and music, but have their own Chilean
slant. Their carefully planned visual and verbal jokes, strategies
and techniques are derived from an array of sources: Picasso,
Surrealism, Pop, Sao Paulo's Os Gemoes, Vitche and Herbert,
Brazilian pichacao lettering, Peruvian photorealism, Argentine
stencils, Bolivian hats and masks, US subway graffiti, hip hop,
punk, Barcelona's street art, Japanese animation, pornography,
Gilbert & George, Brit art, Bansky. The resulting mixture is
anarchic, accessible art. All parts of Chile are covered, from
Arica to Punta Arenas, with special focus on Santiago and
Valparaiso, both key centres of Latin American street art.
Distinctive cities such as Iquique, Chillan, Concepcion and Puerto
Montt, and areas of the country rarely seen, are featured. The book
includes an introduction to the history and flavour of Chilean
street art; a glossary of graffiti terms; manifestos; and
translations of all the graffiti shown.
This fully illustrated anthology showcases key images from Peter
Kennard's work as Britain's foremost political artist over the last
fifty years. The book centres around Kennard's images,
photomontages and illustrations from protests, year by year, which
provoked public outrage; including Israel/Palestine protests,
anti-nuclear protests, responses to austerity, climate destruction,
and more. Each image is accompanied by captions detailing not only
the events in question, but Kennard's approach to the work,
including the genesis of the images and the techniques employed.
Ultimately, the book highlights Kennard's extraordinary
contribution to political art in the twenty-first century.
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Rodney Graham
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Sammlung Goetz; Text written by Tacita Dean, Ingvild Goetz, Kim Gordon, Rodney Graham, …
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The art by the Canadian Rodney Graham may come across as
light-footed, yet in reality it harbors an extraordinary complexity
in terms of content and its use of media. His photographs, objects,
paintings, films, texts, and compositions contain references to
philosophy and literature, to the history of art and culture, that
range from Erasmus of Rotterdam and Edgar Allan Poe to Sigmund
Freud, Richard Wagner, and Kurt Cobain. While in his early oeuvre
he still approaches his sources of material with a great deal of
conceptual rigor, in their playful ambivalence between scientific
factuality and imaginative fiction his later works are marked
primarily by an enormous and intelligent sense of humor.The Goetz
Collection includes works from all of his creative phases and
genres. This publication provides substantial insight into this
all-rounder's extensive artistic work of the last forty years and
extends an invitation to set out on a journey of
discovery.Exhibition: Sammlung Goetz, Munich 28.11.2015-23.4.2016
This collection of original articles brings together for the first
time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and
chronological contexts and shows how they are interpreted in
various fields. Examples range as widely as medieval European cliff
carvings to tags on New York subway cars to messages left in
library bathrooms. In total, the authors legitimize the study of
graffiti as a multidisciplinary pursuit that can produce useful
knowledge of individuals, cultures, and nations. The
chapters-represent 20 authors from six countries; -offer
perspectives of disciplines as diverse as archaeology, history, art
history, museum studies, and sociology;-elicit common themes of
authority and its subversion, the identity work of subcultures and
countercultures, and presentation of privilege and status.
Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for
political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much
discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this
conversation has generalised street art and identified it as a
singular form with identical styles and objectives throughout the
region. Street art's purpose is, however, defined by the
socio-cultural circumstances of its production. Middle Eastern
artists thus adopt distinctive methods in creating their individual
work and responding to their individual environments. Here, in this
new book, Sabrina De Turk employs rigorous visual analysis to
explore the diversity of Middle Eastern street art and uses case
studies of countries as varied as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon,
Palestine, Bahrain and Oman to illustrate how geographic specifics
impact upon its function and aesthetic. Her book will be of
significant interest to scholars specialising in art from the
Middle East and North Africa and those who bring an
interdisciplinary perspective to Middle East studies.
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.
Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the
1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling
metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential
graffiti writers of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work
from the 1970s, '80s and '90s transit system graveyards, including
the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF,
and STRIDER, as well as many other talented underdogs. The era is
richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published
photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the writers
talking about their art and recalling their wild antics. This is an
informative, nostalgic look at New York subway graffiti.
Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty
works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped
this inspirational artist s vision for the future. Monolithic
basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are juxaposed
with works that use stone, water, and light to call to mind
elemental structures in civilization across time. Noguchi saw
himself as equal parts artist and engineer and this volume devotes
special attention to his patented designs, such as Radio Nursethe
first baby monitor, and also includes his designs for stage sets,
playgrounds, and utilitarian articles, many of which are still
being produced today. "
Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available
for the first time since 1931 Restores a rare but highly
influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical
facsimile edition Provides extensive scholarly commentary,
analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting
the anthology in its broader cultural context Offers the first
collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a 'reading
machine' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob Brown
Includes both Craig Saper's new Introduction and a separate chapter
on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar
of Bob Brown's work as well as an important scholar of experimental
writing, media, publishing, and art This new edition of Bob Brown's
groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been
out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally
published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The
contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude
Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugene Jolas and
Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell
and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford
and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses
and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the
anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential
resource for those interested in print and book history, the
politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading
machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy.
The Austrian artist collective G.R.A.M. was founded in 1987 by
Gunther Holler-Schuster, Ronald Walter, Armin Ranner and Martin
Behr. "G.R.A.M. Reenactments 1998-2011" provides the first overview
of their comic-political performances, recorded in photographs and
video works, which include reenactments of Hitler's bodily
gestures, Yugoslav dictator Josip Tito's promotional images and
Lenin's body in the Red Square mausoleum.
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