Street art : the graffiti revolution /
"Street Art is a global phenomenon, one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art-making on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti tradition of the 1980s it has now reached the mainstream through the work of artists like Banksy and Futura 2000, becoming the subject of...
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New York :
Abrams,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Henry Chalfant
- Author's foreword
- Introduction : Street art or graffiti?
- Graffiti : Live in Pompeii ; Brassaï ; 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.