Documents the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City. This book reports how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded, and chronicles the end of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s and its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.
From Banksy to Blek le Rat, Os Gemeos to Mode2, graffiti is no longer just vandalism, it has become an urban art form and a unique form of expression. This title brings together some of the examples of incredible graffiti from talented artists worldwide, which transform and enrich the urban landscape.
As much as London, New York and Los Angeles, Paris has been hijacked by street artists who have transformed public spaces into giant showrooms with their posters, stickers, silk-screens, paintings, mosaics, murals, stencils and photocopies. This book offers a tour of Paris' art.
Presents the basics of creating legally sanctioned graffiti, a style that's been around for many years. This work discusses roots in vandalism and its separation from those roots to the art form as we know it - dynamic, over-the-top styles that deliver maximum impact with the same sense of creative risk graffiti writers have always taken on.
Features the drawings that are made by artists who usually make their art in the street (sometimes called Graffiti or Street artists). This book enables you to find your inner street artist without leaving your home. Suitable for children, small and large, it challenges you to create your own street art on the page.
Offers a survey of the international graffiti scene, using 365 rare images to introduce or describe important artists-from Taki 183 to Banksy-and styles-from bubble to wild. Along the way, this title covers different eras, cities, paints, legendary walls and crews, police and public response to graffiti, and more.
A graffiti book with over 2, 000 pictures of artworks from more than 180 international artists. It combines the author's first-hand experiences with"es from the artists themselves to offer an insiders perspective of the key trends and style developments that have made graffiti a global phenomenon.
Filled with a collection of more than 280 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, this title is suitable for the young market of designers, street artists and illustrators, as well as street art fans and those who collect stickers.
Features a celebration of Banksy's street art in his home city of Bristol. This book places him in the context of 3D, John Nation from the Barton Hill Settlement, Inkie, Nick Walker and the other artists and musicians who were instrumental in linking Bristol to the original New York hip hop scene.
Abstract Graffiti is a timely overview of emerging trends and style developments in global street art. It includes contributions from and exclusive interviews with the street artists Rammellzee, Barbara Kruger and Crew Against People, as well as over 160 photographs of new work in cities worldwide, from Berlin to Buenos Aires.
Made in collaboration with featured artists, Trespass examines the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events, and movements of self-expression in the city's social space, and the history of urban reclamation, protest, and illicit performance.
For more than 40 years, the community murals of New York City have been used as a means to beautify, educate, protest, celebrate, and motivate local residents and communities. This title presents an illustrated exploration of 40 years of NYC's vibrant community art.
Graffiti has been around since the ancient times - examples abound in Ancient Greek archaeological sites. In modern times, spray paint and markers have become the tools of choice. This title collects some of the most innovative and original graffiti and street art from cities around the world.
Bringing together the examples of street art in Berlin, this book tells about street artists, who work at night. Some of them, like London's Banksy, have achieved cult status, leaving their messages on building facades and other places. It collects the photographs of the works of the city's pre-eminent street artists.
Influenced by graffiti, graphic design, typography, comic books, and digital art, street art is gaining a foothold in galleries and with serious collectors. This work investigates the tools and materials, roots and influences, where and how to show work, case studies of people 'doing it', and a list of contacts and resources.
Female graffiti artists are making their mark on what has until now been a male-dominated sphere. This work documents this phenomenon, and includes two 8-page fold-out collages, and reproduces the work of world-famous artists, as well as a galaxy of rising stars.
San Francisco's legendary Mission District boasts a greater concentration of street art than any other neighbourhood in the world. With 900 photographs, this book showcases more than three decades of work by a diverse array of artists, from the conspicuously anonymous to the internationally famous.
Offers a behind-the-scenes look at how street art has entered the mainstream and become one of the most collectable new art forms. This title presents an insight into the work of ten of Australia's most influential, dynamic and creative artists living in Melbourne.
Beginning with an explanation of the difference between street art and graffiti, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the movement that began in the late 1960s with anonymous spray-can art in New York and Philadelphia. Woven throughout are biographies of the artists - all internationally known - and an interview with each one.
Here is a report from the trenches on the most exciting and original graffiti scene to emerge in the past decade. From extraordinary creative extremes generated amidst urban deprivation to crafted murals at their most elaborate, Graffiti Brasil offers both stunning photography and in-depth history and insight from world authorities on the subject.
Kurt Wenner revolutionised this ancient art by creating a technique that produces astounding images in 3-D; they reach out of the pavement toward the viewer and appear perilously deep. This title recounts the re-imagining of street painting by innovative artist and Internet sensation Kurt Wenner. It also includes a DVD and a poster.
From Banksy to Blek le Rat, JR to Futura, the street art phenomenon is sweeping the globe. With people turning up in their thousands to view the first street art exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2008. This title brings together a selection of awe-inspiring and extraordinary examples of urban art from around the world.
Examines the spread of graffiti in Asia, focusing on Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. This title features anecdotes and interviews with local artists that provide insights into which paints, tools and techniques are used, and the popular graffiti locations.
An essential part of the street art movement, inexpensive, and easy to produce, stickers often act as an informal business card for graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. This fully-peelable sticker book features illustration, graffiti and graphics.
New York City is considered the birthplace of graffiti and has been a cradle for urban artists since the beginning of the 1970's. The city streets are filled with an explosion of creativity. Artists from around the world have journeyed to this city to leave behind their colourful work on walls, road signs, and street furniture.
A guide to graffiti and street art. It explains the terms and language of graffiti and street art from tags and throwies to culture jamming and subvertising as well as their multiple influences and sub-genres. It traces the origins and evolution of graffiti and street art, and explores the motivations and practices of the leading exponents.
Shot in a riot of color by press photographer Alex MacNaughton, this work presents a spectrum of writers and graffiti artists from crews all over London, including Hoxton, Shoreditch, Camden, and Hackney. Providing a record of the best artists on the London scene, it captures pieces that last only a matter of hours or days before they are removed.
In the scope of human history, graffiti is the only visual art form started by children to have become a globally entrenched medium. This title provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the roots of a subculture that, in the last twenty-five years, has managed to move mainstream without losing its edge.
Argentina's young, fresh scene is a beacon of creativity to graffiti enthusiasts worldwide. This book tells the story of the Argentinian graffiti scene from its first efflorescence in the 1990s and artists experiences, to the underground use of tags, train graffiti and political images, and the sketches and designs that have come off the street.
Graffiti is the latest craze in commercial graphics and stencil graffiti is a refined version of the medium. Manco gives over 400 examples of this art form from all around the world, produced in a variety of media and with a huge range of subject matter from politics to poetry.