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Banksy (Hardcover)
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The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the
enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched
and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy continues to defy
accepted wisdom about artistic success, growing only more famous
and powerful even as he sticks to his anti-establishment platform
and to his mission to give a voice to the voiceless. Accompanied by
stunning full-page, full-color reproductions and photographs of
works in situ-including many that have been lost to time
-photographer and street art expert Alessandra Mattanza's
impassioned and informed text follows Banksy's career trajectory
from creator of message-laden stencils on London's city walls to a
sought-after champion of human and environmental rights. She
investigates many of the key images that populate Banksy's
work-animals, children, historic figures, balloons, cartoon
characters, police officers, and others. She shows how Banksy's
oeuvre has expanded beyond graffiti and stenciling and how his art
has helped support his activism in a variety of causes-from calls
for peace in the Middle East to the preservation of the natural
environment. Best of all she helps readers make sense of the rather
unusual path Banksy has chosen-an artist who uses his global
platform to raise awareness about the underserved, rather than to
his own celebrity. Readers will come away with a new understanding
of how Banksy helped transform an illegal act of criminal damage
into a high art form, and how, by ridiculing institutionalized art,
he has achieved enormous fame within those very institutions.
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