Street Art The Graffiti Revolution

Name: Street Art The Graffiti Revolution
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ISBN: 9780810983205

ISBN-10: 0810983206

ISBN-13: 9780810983205

Edition: 2008

Authors: Cedar Lewisohn, Henry Chalfant

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Over the last decade, street artart made in public spaces including graffiti, stickers, stencil art, and wheat-pasting has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti-writing tradition of the 1980s through the work of artists such as Banksy and Futura 2000, it has long since reached the mainstream.Street Artis the first measured, critical account of the development of this global phenomenon. Tracing street art's origins in cave painting through the Paris walls photographed by Brassai in the '20s through the witty, sophisticated imagery found on city streets today, the book also features new and exclusive…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 8.75" wide x 10.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English



Foreword



Author's Foreword



Street Art or Graffiti?


Graffiti


Live in Pompeii


Brassai


The Evolution of Graffiti


Lee


Getting the Picture: Martha Cooper


Style Wars


Futura 2000


Early Shows


I am Somebody!


Graffiti is Addictive


Tags (Noms de Guerre)


Barry McGee


Brazil Style


Street Art


Global-style Graffiti, Local-style Street Art


Ernest Pignon-Ernest


Blek le Rat


Art School of Hard Knocks


Gordon Matta-Clark


Street Art Avant-Garde


Dan Witz


UnderCulture Gone Mainstream


Mixing it up: The Politics


Anti-Modernism (The Barbarians are at the Gates)


Jenny Holzer


John Fekner


Disrupting Systems of Thought


Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring


Setting and Anonymity


Obey: Shepard Fairey


Survival in Hyper-Reality


The Medium is the Message, Sometimes


Faile


Kaws


Advertising


Mustafa Hulusi


Subvertising


Banksy


Miss Van


JR


Museums and Outlaws


Illegal v. Legal


Blu


Outsiders


Invader


Sanctioning Bodies


Eine


The Market


Judith Sulpine


Swoon


The Wooster Collective


D*Face


Sculpture


Crateman


Graffiti Research Lab


The End is No End


Photographic credits


Index