0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Graffitecture - Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces (Paperback): Front Forty Press Graffitecture - Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces (Paperback)
Front Forty Press
R509 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R74 (15%) Out of stock

Graffitecture is an exploration of what happens when graffiti, a highly innovative, wholly original art form rooted in urban culture, both clashes and commingles with the built environment. It is an essential publication for anyone interested in learning more about graffiti and its influence on art, graphic design, typography, popular culture, and communication.
Photographer and Graffitecture editor Doug Fogelson invited more than 40 prolific Chicago graffiti artists to manipulate over 60 of his photographs. The images depict interiors and exteriors of diverse, high-end spaces such as homes, hotels, office buildings, and stores (as well some of the more traditional places where graffiti occurs). In doing so artists were asked, What would YOU do here?
The Chicago based artists (include provocative figures such as the X-Men, Jeff Zimmerman, Chris Silva, Fact, Gusher, Michael Genovese, Sketcherone, Merdok and many others) manipulated the prints any way they saw fit. The results range from a pen-and-ink subway train riding through an office building lobby to a colorful, futuristic mural splashed on the screen at an empty home movie theater.
Graffitecture also examines graffiti's artistic and cultural significance through four essays written by Illinois-based professors and artists. John Jennings, a graphic design and urban studies professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ponders mainstream society's appropriation of graffiti's unique typography. Bridgette R. McCullough, an art historian, Manet scholar, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, compares modern-day graffiti to abstract art. Another Art Institute professor, furniture designer/artist/curator Bridgette Buckley, examines the symbiotic relationship between architecture and illicit painting. Tim Hartford, president of Hartford Design, ponders the very meaning of graffiti and its place in history.
The collaborative images are presented in a full-color gallery while the essays are presented with Fogelson's black-and-white aerial panoramas of Chicago's landmarks and skyline. Designed by Dan De Los Monteros and David Castillo

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
State of Emergency - How We Win in the…
Tamika D Mallory Paperback R434 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020
World War II Quilts
Sue Reich Hardcover R1,221 R974 Discovery Miles 9 740
First Aid Reader E: Crossing the Line…
Angus Maciver Paperback R493 Discovery Miles 4 930
Spectacular Stars Simplified - Stitch…
Shelley Cavanna Paperback R657 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900
My Good Goat
Katrina Streza Hardcover R605 Discovery Miles 6 050
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and…
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Paperback R438 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720
Fabulous Mini Quilts
J Davis Paperback R282 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270
Nine Days - The Race to Save Martin…
Paul Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick Paperback R522 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870
Mending Clothes - An Upcycling Stitching…
Zera Meyer Hardcover R677 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040
Genesis 1-11 - A Commentary in the…
Joseph Coleson Paperback R819 R719 Discovery Miles 7 190

 

Partners