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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Other graphic art forms
In the last few decades, art has moved from the museums and art
galleries to the streets. Visionary artists, gifted with breath-
taking expressiveness, have utilized featureless and abandoned
spacesof everyday life and converted them into a new artistic
palette for expressing their ideas. In this context, this new art
breaks the mold and speaks directly to a now-global audience
without intermediaries or filters. Social themes, political
criticism, and poetry materialize on a bridge, on the facade of an
old building or between the railings of a courtyard. Chris Versteeg
provides a detailed historical introductionto street art and
graffiti, from its origins to the main trends through which it is
expressed: from graffiti to sticker art, from tagging to character,
and including stencil art. Thanks to the interviews by Alessandra
Mattanza, the reader is provided access to twenty of the most
representative exponents ofthe latest street-art scene. These
artists tell their story and introduce the readers to the rationale
and the ideas from which they draw inspiration.
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