Not to be filed under history, photography, design or
non-fiction, as it contains outright lies and outrageous
subjective opinion, this book is definitely about street
art. It is also about now. Fungus grows on your
collected wild-style pioneers. Vile passions rage
between old schools and new. Stuff flies out from under
the hammer at auction houses and property developers
fund street art shows to liberal press fanfare. Oh, and
Banksy hits the West Bank. Is anyone taking this thing
seriously? Should it be taken seriously? Is it all just
an immense daisy chain of poker faces, irony and mind
games? Brilliant images of graffiti collected from all
over the world and preserved here before the legions
employed to destroy them and chip them off the walls.
This is art driven by existential hunger, art that
attacks you only if you are lame, art that inspires
mystery and creativity. 11 Spring St NY was a much-loved
site that became a graffiti landmark. Before it was
redeveloped it inspired acts of love and passion: Lou
Reed made it the subject of a poem and Untitled
preserves it in all of its glory.Includes works by
Banksy, Faile, Dface, Swoon, Bast, Blu, Blek Le Rat,
Obey, Dolk, Eine, Gaia, Elbowtoe, Hush, Copyright, Mir,
Dan Witz, Space Invader, Armsrock, Doze Green, Know
Hope, Skullphone, WKInteract, Skewville, Borf, Ame72,
Sam3, Eelus, Miss Bugs, Rene Gagnon, The London Police,
Michael De Feo and many more. |
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