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"It's a must-have art collection gathering dust on the coffee
table, and it's just that." - NY Journal of Books on Street Art
Today 1 "One of the best books on Street Art" - Amazon.com "It is a
beautiful aggregation, and certainly many of these artists have
been interviewed and regularly featured on websites and other free
cultural outlets like this one providing depth, context, analysis,
information, and exposure. Having a hard copy of this collection of
fifty in your hand will help freeze this moment for posterity as
the scene/s continue to evolve." - brooklynstreetart.com on Street
Art Today 1 Going beyond the cliche of street art as artistically
responsible graffiti, this Who's Who of the international
contemporary street art scene features 50 of the top street artists
working today, complete with exclusive interviews. More than a
revised edition of Street Art Today (2015), this book offers a
completely new and updated roster of artists, and highlights the
evolution of street art in all its multi-faceted complexity. Street
Art Today is beautifully presented and written, in the main, in
straightforward language accessible to all.
Starting with simple letters, you can learn to create an infinite
variety of exciting graffiti word designs with this amazing book.
It is jam packed with easy-to-follow, step-by-step, detailed
instructions, in both pictures and text that will guide you through
the process of creating a successful graffiti masterpiece. You will
discover that the process of making graffiti is as satisfying as
the end result. This book unlocks the secrets of this amazing art
form and encourages creativity, experimentation, and fun.
A recognition of graffiti and street art by women from around the
world. This book brings together the personal experiences, dreams,
purposes, cultural tastes, struggles and samples of the work of
more than 50 female graffiti artists, street artists and female
muralists dedicated to reclaiming the public space and enriching
our urban environments. This thoroughly illustrated book will
inspire the reader to seek out street art in our cities, pointing
towards a fairer world in terms of female equality within street
art and graffiti. The book shows how these women fight to break
free of the inequalities that linger in our society today and
continue to affect women's status in many sectors, including art.
PARTICIPANTS. Argentina: Agus Rucula, Hola Pum Pum, K2man, Milu
Correch. Australia: Danielle Weber, Vexta. Belarus: Julia Yu Baba.
Brazil: Magrela. Canada: Emily Read, Priscilla Yu. Chile: Anis88.
Colombia: Ledania, Mugre Diamante. Equador: Mo Vasquez. France:
Claire Prouvost, Emyart, Mademoiselle Kat, Wuna (+Canada), Zabou
(+UK), Zoia. Finland: Camilla Siren, Anetta Lukjanova (+Spain).
Germany: Minas. Italy: Alice Pasquini, Rame13, Vera Bugatti.
Mexico: Lourdes Villagomez, Paola Delfin, Tahnee Flor, Triana
Parera, Adry del Rocio, Alina Kiliwa, Alegria del Prado (+Spain:).
Norway: Missprinted. Peru: Niz (+USA). Poland: Natalia Rak,
Nespoon. Portugal: Tamara Alves. Spain: Btoy, Didi Leona, Elisa
Capdevila, Julieta xlf, Lily Brik. The Netherlands: JDL. UK: Helen
Bur, Rosie Woods (+Australia). USA: Emily Eldridge (+Germany), Kaz
Williams/KAZILLA (Miami, FL), Kee Romano, Nico Cathcart (Richmond,
VA), Toofly (+Equador). Venezuela: Sandra Betancort. AUTHOR: Diego
Lopez has a degree in Documentation from the University of
Valencia. He later furthered his training in the documentation
centers of the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts and the newspaper Las
Provincias. He has also contri-buted to such publications as
Cultivar Salud and Hello Valencia and is a blogger on social
networks with thousands of followers. Passionate about graffiti and
street art, he is dedicated to delving into this fascinating world
within cities and collecting photos of the works and pieces created
on the street and meeting their creators. He has published a book
on regional Spanish street art. SELLING POINTS: . The book honours
the contribution to graffiti and street art by women around the
world . More than 50 female graffiti artists, urban artists and
muralists who contribute to creating an open-air art museum
In 1772, upon the death of her second husband, Mary Delany arose
from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors, and, at the age of
seventy-two, created a new art form: mixed-media collage. Over the
next decade, Mrs. Delany produced an astonishing 985 botanically
correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British
Museum and referred to as the "Flora Delanica." As she tracks the
extraordinary life of Delany--friend of George Frideric Handel and
Jonathan Swift--internationally acclaimed poet Molly Peacock weaves
in delicate parallels in her own life and, in doing so, creates a
profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and
art. This gorgeously designed book, featuring thirty-five
full-color illustrations, is to be devoured as voraciously as one
of the court dinners it describes.
Public art is a form of communication that enables spaces for
encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine,
repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with
emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics,
Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the
United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists
to navigate their changing relationships with publics,
institutions, and commercial entities. Painting Publics draws on a
combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as
well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical
theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than
counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for
imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from
personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial
sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico,
Germany, and France, there is even some state support for the
production and maintenance of civic education through visual
culture. In her examination of graffiti culture and its spaces of
inscription, Bruce allows us to see moments where practitioners
actively reckon with possibility.
What ancient graffiti reveals about the everyday lives of Jews in
the Greek and Roman world Few direct clues exist to the everyday
lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing
perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the
voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings
of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and
Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions
displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities
of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of
nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the
historical record. Focusing on these forgotten Jews of antiquity,
Writing on the Wall takes an unprecedented look at the vernacular
inscriptions and drawings they left behind and sheds new light on
the richness of their quotidian lives. Just like their neighbors
throughout the eastern and southern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia,
Arabia, and Egypt, ancient Jews scribbled and drew graffiti
everyplace--in and around markets, hippodromes, theaters, pagan
temples, open cliffs, sanctuaries, and even inside burial caves and
synagogues. Karen Stern reveals what these markings tell us about
the men and women who made them, people whose lives, beliefs, and
behaviors eluded commemoration in grand literary and architectural
works. Making compelling analogies with modern graffiti practices,
she documents the overlooked connections between Jews and their
neighbors, showing how popular Jewish practices of prayer, mortuary
commemoration, commerce, and civic engagement regularly crossed
ethnic and religious boundaries. Illustrated throughout with
examples of ancient graffiti, Writing on the Wall provides a
tantalizingly intimate glimpse into the cultural worlds of
forgotten populations living at the crossroads of Judaism,
Christianity, paganism, and earliest Islam.
Children of the Can: Bristol Street Art and Graffiti is the
follow-up to 2008's hugely successful Children of the Can: 25 Years
of Bristol Graffiti. What started out as a straightforward second
edition quickly took on a life of its own and has grown into a new
project. Since the initial publication of Children of the Can the
Bristol graffiti scene has seen the emergence of many new artists
and events, cementing Bristol's status as one of the UK and
Europe's most influential cities in the street art movement. With
more than 60 added pages and more than 20 new artists and events
Children of the Can: Bristol Graffiti and Street Art gives a
comprehensive A- Z of some of the biggest names in Bristol
graffiti. Including: 3D, Banksy, Cheo, China Mike, Filthy Luker,
FLX, Haka, Inkie, Jeff Row, Jody, Lokey, Mr.Jago, Mudwig, Nick
Walker, Rowdy, Sickboy, Soker, What Collective, Will Barras, The
Z-Boys and many more - Author Felix 'FLX' Braun started writing
graffiti in the mid-80s and grew up with the Bristol scene painting
alongside the likes of Inkie and Nick Walker. He continues to live
and paint in the city and has unrivalled access to the artists and
their work. Here, they tell their stories in their own words. Many
of the images in Children of the Can have never before been
published and many have been provided from the artists' sketchbooks
and private collections. The book aims is the definitive collection
of Bristol graffiti, containing several hundred images.
"I've never made my art because I want to make money. I make it
because I believe that my paintings . . . can change the world."
Meet C215, a master street artist with a mission. C215 is the
pseudonym chosen by Christian Gu my ("The French Banksy"), one of
the world's most important masters of contemporary street art. He
became famous in 2008 when Banksy invited him to collaborate on
some projects, and today, even though he has the talent to work for
galleries or museums, he continues producing his art on the street.
See his amazing creations, and get to know him through a series of
interviews conducted by Alessandra Mattanza, an expert in
international street art. Known for drawing, painting,
spray-painting, and personally photographing his works, C215
himself has in fact taken many of the images shown in this
eye-opening volume. These photos enrich this intimate portrait of
the artist, presenting his vision and his experience on the street.
Readers can grasp the essence of his philosophy, and discover his
most important works in the cities of Paris, London, Los Angeles,
New York, Rome, Istanbul, New Delhi, and Fez as well as in Brazil,
Poland, Israel, and Morocco.
Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's
Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from Misery by
Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and
possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy would crawl
over broken glass, if that was the way." Here, sleep is a "circle
whose diameter might be small," a circle "pitifully small," a
"wrecked and empty hypothetical circle." Paired with Sloat's
stunning mixed-media collage, each poem is a miniature canvas, a
brief associative profile of the psyche-its foibles, obsessions,
and delights.
For the very first time an overview is published featuring the
works of Belgium's finest street art and graffiti artists. Belgian
Street Art Today contains a selection of works made by 50 selected
artists, such as Roa, Djoels, Dzia, Jaune, Mata One, 2 Dirty, Bue
The Warrior, Joachim, Zenith... Some of these artists are working
around the globe and have received international acclaim; a few of
them are even represented by prestigious art galleries abroad. The
selection is preceded by a brief history of street art and a
never-before-published comprehensive overview of street art
projects and street art and graffiti walks in Belgium. Therefore
this book is a must-have for art lovers looking for insider tips
and unique experiences. For more than two years, photographer
Vincent Willems crisscrossed Belgium in search of the most
spectacular interventions and murals, a passion culminating in this
stunning book.
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"Although the street art is generally conveyed in a very natural
matter, even his dead animal paintings seem at peace." -
Streetartbio.com "Detached from the artist's identity, his
detailed, illustrative animal paintings have brought him back to
the world. With local species of animals as his main focus, ROA
inevitably starts a dialogue about human interaction with nature
and the environment, whether it is painting on the walls of a
museum or in an abandoned rural factory." - Hi Fructose - The New
Contemporary Magazine "One of the most influential acts of street
art around the world." - The Huffington Post Fascinated by nature,
the anonymous muralist and street artist ROA is inspired by the
beauty of its non-human inhabitants. With great attention to
detail, ROA draws over-sized black and white creatures of endemic
or endangered species on buildings around the world, from Moscow to
Mexico City, and from Los Angeles to London. His subjects are
frequently survivors; scavengers, rodents, and unusual animals that
thrive in their particular milieu.
Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the
central themes in the art of celebrated British artist John
Stezaker, from the capacities of collage to the current flow in an
age of mass media. This volume brings silkscreens on canvas from
the early 1990s and film still collages from the 1990s and 2009
together for the first time. Accompanying full-colour illustrations
and a series of installation views of Stezaker's work at The
Approach, London, an essay by art critic and cultural commentator
Michael Bracewell looks at the connections within Stezaker's
practice, centering on notions of screens, voids and cut-outs.
Accompanying the solo exhibition of Barabasi Lab at the Ludwig
Museum Budapest and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, this book will be more
than exhibition catalogue: it comes with a range of voices and
viewpoints that give readers a sweeping view of the work Barabasi
has done over the last twenty years and how it connects to art,
science, and our general outlook on the world today. The Center for
Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University was
founded 20 years ago and the lab is dedicated to a deeper thinking
about networks—how they emerge and evolve, what they look like,
and how they impact our understanding of complex systems. The
backbone of this book are the extraordinary visualisations, in 2-D
and 3-D, that Barabasi’s lab has evolved, and which are unique
not only to his practice but to the world of network theory and
science at large. A series of essays and statements by scientists
and artists alike will be followed by a long, beautiful array of
breathtaking plates. Given the current state of the world, the book
will also explain how Barabasi’s work relates to Covid-19 and how
understanding networks helps us predict and understand the spread
of diseases.
Through 'cut and paste', the old way of doing, Bainbridge creates
new relationships between images that have been abstracted and
detached from their original source and context of brand and
commercial message. These collages are glistening and playful, even
risque."
A photo-illustrated record of Chilean protest art, along with
reflections on artistic antecedents, global protest movements, and
the long shadow cast by Chile's authoritarian past. From October
2019 until the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Chile was convulsed
by protests and political upheaval, as what began as civil
disobedience transformed into a vast resistance movement.
Throughout, the most striking aspects of the protests were the
murals, graffiti, and other political graphics that became
ubiquitous in Chilean cities. Authors Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric
Zolov were in Santiago to witness and document the protests from
their very beginning. The book is beautifully illustrated with over
150 photographs taken throughout the protests. Additional photos
will be available on the publisher's website. From the
introduction: In the conclusion, we take stock of the crisis of the
nation-state in the contemporary era. This chapter brings events
into the present moment, noting the ways President Pinera took
advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to reclaim the streets of
Santiago, a phenomenon echoed in countries across the globe. While
most of the global protest movements were forced to go underground
(or into the ether), the Black Lives Matter movement surged in the
United States and drew massive amounts of support both domestically
and abroad, suggesting a continued wave of grassroots protests. We
close with reflections on the continued relevance of walls in a
virtual world, the testimonial role that protest graphics play, and
the future outlook for revolutionary movements in Chile and
worldwide.
Offering a concise introduction of the invention and development of
Chinese characters the book teases out the glyphic characteristics
and rules for creating different calligraphic styles; visualizes
the glyphic evolution of 132 commonly used characters and analyses
a selection of over 60 outstanding type designs of renowned
designers. It will enable designers to maximize the expression
value of Chinese characters in visuals! Recent years have witnessed
a Chinese character design boom, with influential activities
popping up one after another across Asia. Institutions such as The
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Just Fonts, 3type, Mojijuku have
launched courses for Chinese character design. Meanwhile, various
exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and competitions, online or
offline, are popular with young designers. The innovative use of
Chinese characters as main visual elements in design, such as brand
identity, logos, books, and posters, enjoys growing trend globally.
On the other hand, the cultural uniqueness of Chinese characters
demands a sound understanding of its history from designers.
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