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€ 18,00
Part of Rebellion shall be understood as the answer to all those books about street art, which are put into the market without having any relation to the scene.in a handy format (128 colour pages, 15 x 18,8 cm), this book is very affordable. Every four months a new volume will be published, next artist will be Förtress colleague Dave the Chimp from London.
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€ 38,00
Published by AKA Projects, and designed by the ALSO KNOWN AS Crew, comes this all out assault to the senses. 'Million Dollar Vandal' is the uncensored story about the life and times of Brooklyn's prodigal son, Desa MTA. For the first time, we get inside Desa's head and his story gets officially told from the beginning. Exceptionally well written, this book chronicles in detail how Desa became the symbol of New York's war on graffiti during the 1990's, and details the repurcussions that came with being the NYC Vandal Squads public enemy number one. It's also an intimate look into his personal life, and reflects back on the milestones that formed the person he is today, including the death of VE (RIP), his near-fatal accident, and his tumultuous graffiti career being pursued by the Vandal Squad, and state prosecuters. 'Million Dollar Vandal' is full of cinematic-type landscape photos, exclusive action shots, and personal portraits that range from trains to tunnels, platforms to rooftops, and from the streets of New York to the house he lives in. Beautifully photographed and also designed by ALSO KNOWN AS, this book has all the attention to detail and amazing printing techniques you've come to expect out of that crew including fluroescent and metallic inks, amazing packaging, and enough eye candy to keep this book on your coffe table permenantly. Hardcover, 8.25" x 10.25", 192 full-color pages, spot metallic and fluorescent inks, custom packaging.
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€ 25,00
A controversial art form and provocative cultural phenomenon, graffiti has inestimably influenced our entire environmentfrom music and fashion to advertising, architecture, and graphic arts. Yet it is an illegal activity, which makes its practitioners wanted criminals. Motivated by a desire for self-expression and recognition, the act of marking ones territory is done at the risk of severe consequences including fines and jail time. Graffiti writers are outlaws, unknown artists whose faces are known only to their peers. Treated as criminals by the law and dismissed as artists by the establishment, writers are perceived as either alluring anti-heroes or loathsome vandals, and usually remain anonymous to their audience. But not to photographer Peter Sutherland.
With an eye for style, Sutherland captures all of the gritty glory and glamour of the graffiti world and its warriors. Collected for the first time in Autograf: New York Citys Graffiti Writers, Sutherland presents a never-before-seen chronicle of the people and places that populate New Yorks famed graf scene. Featuring old-school legends FUTURA, STAY HIGH 149, LADY PINK and DOZE, as well as new-school writers COPE 2, CLAW, KR, CYCLE, KAWS, SACER, EARSNOT, SERF, RATE, CINIK, UFO, and DSENSE, among many others, each one of the fifty-three portraits is authentically tagged by the individual writers using the same paint markers that brought them fame. Complemented by one hundred sixty landscape photographs and featuring handwritten text by legendary recluse REVS, Autograf is the only book to showcase New York Citys graffiti scene as it was created and defined by some of the most prolific artists of our time.
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€ 26,00
In just a few years, Swedish street art has boomed. Anonymous artists have been using the city as a playground, and its streets as their parliament. Street art raises questions, but once it reaches the audience, there are no answers. How does the urge to feel responsible for your immediate environs arise? Why are some expressions within street art more accepted than others? Why do so few women choose to work in public space? How is this art affected by advertising? Playground Sweden gives the answer through the accounts of 30 of Swedens most interesting street artists. Playground Sweden is a travel report through text and image, abook on contemporary Swedish art that refuses to follow conventional rules. Richly illustrated with unique pictorial material that will show you not only the finished product, but also the creative process of street art.
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€ 25,00
Stockholm has been decorated by graffiti writers for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, the people behind graffiti allow themselves to be portrayed. 1207 presents more than 50 of Stockholms most active and legendary graffiti writers. Photographer Torkel Sjöstrand has followed them and photographed them on their walks through the city for three years. From Spånga to Norsborg, Södertälje to Ekerö, suburb to inner city. In tunnels and on railroad tracks, or overlooking a magnificent vista of the city. Graffiti writers are fascinated by the places many people dont notice. 1207 is a document of a small group of people who risk their own well-being for an art form that is constantly pilloried by politicians and the authorities. We are offered a different depiction of Stockholm, and a unique document of its graffiti writers. Moreover, all the writers have written their tag in the book. 1207 is the police code for destruction of property through graffiti. With an essay by Jacob Kimvall, art theoretician and an authority on graffiti. Foreword by Irok, Stockholm graffiti writer.
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€ 25,00
Home Sweet Home is 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.
It is the most revealing account of Banksy's formative years and contains more than one hundred images of his Bristol art, as well as pictures of Banksy at work, many of which have never been published before.
Steve Wright, Venue magazine's Art Editor, traces Banksy's roots back to the rave culture of the Nineties and draws a rounded picture of an artist who is most famous for being anonymous.
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€ 25,00
A stunning, full-color collection of some of the finest spray-can art the world has to offer.
Paperback: 120 pages ; 23 x 15 cm
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€ 34,00
'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.'
Metropolitan Police spokesperson
The collected works of Britains most wanted artist
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist! The work of Bansky is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Bansky is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he's putting together the best of his work - old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.
Hardcover 208 pages (November 3, 2005)
Publisher: Century
Language: English
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€ 40,00
A Miss Rosen Edition
A two-toned, three-taloned CLAW paw has been sprawled in aerosol across walls around the world since the early 1990s. Whether lolling in the East Village or lazing in Los Angeles, lounging in Amsterdam or living it up in Milan, the instantly identifiable icon maintains a fun, fabulous, and feminine allure, despite the grit and grime that makes graffiti a mans world. One of the first writers to use an icon as her throw up, CLAW is of the rarest breed: the female graff King.
Not content to beat the boys at their own game, CLAW also designs her own clothing line, Claw Money, as well as a jewelry and accessory line, literally creating her own street style. Emblazoned on t-shirts, sweatshirts, purses, and panties, her emblematic icon gets love from everyone, be
it graff legends or new jacks, riot grrls or fashionistas, or school kids and soccer moms. A magazine fashion editor, brand consultant, vintage clothing collector, and lady about town, Claw Money is New York Citys best kept secret.
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€ 42,00
Pixação: São Paulo Signature
Despite laws, pixações have taken over São Paulo. Literally meaning trace or stain and dating back in its contemporary form to the mid-1980s, pixaçõe is a striking form of graffiti unique to the city that developed when Sao Paulo writers began creating imaginary calligraphic signatures influenced by hybrid blackletter, historic letterforms and the logos of heavy metal and hardcore bands. Claiming the architectural facades of the city as their canvas, the omnipresent pixações are a true calligraphic shock that have caused a deep aesthetic transformation of the face of Sao Paulo. With more than 125 photos as well as a detailed analysis of the phenomenon, São Paulo Signature deciphers for the very ?rst time an unparalleled graphic universe.
The astute analysis which is expanded upon in this volume opened my myopic eyes to a system of writing and ethic of creation that rises above even the most high-spirited and emblematic American graffiti. Steven Heller
280 pages, More than 210 photos & drawings,
ISBN: 2-9528097-1-9
ISBN-13: 978-2-9528097-1-9
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€ 28,00
It was 1989 when Shepard Fairey, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, first created the now-infamous THE GIANT HAS A POSSE sticker. The black and white image of the huge wrestler's subdued and vacant stare became an underground icon and by the mid-90's about a half-million had been posted around the world.
This monograph is a reprint of a limited edition paperback published in Japan. It documents Shepard Fairey's career from his creation of the Giant phenomenon up to and including the advent of Black Market, a San Diego design agency Fairey formed with Dave Kinsey and Philip Dewolff and which focuses on the action sport and music industries. Today Shepard Fairey creates designs for high profile clients such as Pepsi and Universal Pictures, produces Giant art, exhibits worldwide in galleries, and still keeps his Giant images on the streets
Gingko Press, expected November 2001, 58 pages, Paperback, 8 1/4' x 11 3/4' (300 x 210 mm)
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€ 22,00
First monograph featuring the work of artist, graffiti artist & illustrator Kostas Seremetis. Published by Littlemore (Japan), January 2002, softcove
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€ 30,00
Artists were given free reign to compose 4 full-bleed pages presenting their work. From billboard liberator Ron English (Garbage Pail Kids) to John Pound, Jamie Reid, Espo, Cynthia Connolly, Dalek, Gian, Mark Bode, WK Interakt.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Gingko Press; (October 2003)
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€ 28,00
Todd James is a native New Yorker who currently divides has time between Los Angeles and Manhattan. Features on James and his art have appeared in publications such as Artforum, Tokion, Marie Claire, Tokyo Jammin', and Art in America. Rachel Greene (Introduction) is the Executive Director of Rhizome.org and a Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Her writing has appeared in Time Out New York, Artforum, and frieze. Her upcoming book Internet Art will be published by Thames & Hudson in the spring of 2004. Rachel Greene lives in New York City.
Book Description
Filled with more than one hundred fifty raucous and brash drawings, paintings, and signage, Todd James is a dense catalog of recent work from the internationally known artist and designer. James' commercial work over the last fifteen years has helped shape the aesthetic of contemporary youth culture, and his logos for clients like The Source, Eminem, Mobb Deep, the Beastie Boys, and Redman remain some of rap music's most enduring icons. As the current production designer for Comedy Central's hit show "Crank Yankers," his work - and his puppets - have garnered both critical acclaim and rabid fans. James also curates an art feature for the culture mag Mass Appeal, and his illustrations have been featured in dozen of periodicals from The Nation to Vibe. James' art has been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Tate Liverpool, Deitch Projects in New York City, and the Parco Gallery in Japan, among other venues. His self-published coloring book Attitude Dancer and the catalog for the Deitch Projects exhibition,"Street Market," remain highly sought-after cult favorites. In this publication, James highlights some of his best-known works from the last two years, as well as many exclusive works taken directly from private collections and sketchbooks. Produced in conjunction with The Henry Moore Foundation, Todd James is an intense, hilarious, and wholly compelling window into the art of one of downtown New York's most celebrated street artists.
Paperback: 128 pages
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€ 35,00
Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published.
THAMES & HUDSON
OCTOBER 2004
With over 2000 illustration
PLC (no jacket) including 6 foldouts
23.5 x 22.0 cm
376pAGES
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€ 29,00
Heir apparent to the second generation of Parisian writers, Zeky has been active since 1988. During this period he has developed his own spontaneous style and his art has enabled him to evolve progessively. This book gives us an overview of his work on a variety of materials and the contents include many hitherto unseen collaborations with artists such as Mist, Serp, Brok and Alex to name but a few.
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€ 40,00
WKInteract is a French urban artist currently living in New York City. His distinctive black and white painted murals can be admired in more places than just the streets. The bold images, in which movement is practically palpable, are also being appreciated in exhibit spaces, including the display windows of the Parisian temple of consumption Galeries Lafayettes. This book presents a wide spectrum of WKInteracts dynamic work in one place for the first time. In addition to the lively portraits of skaters, kung-fu masters, boxers and mountain climbers that have become his trademark, it also features his installations and commercial graphic design for clients including Mini, Burton and Yamaha. The publication shows how WKInteract masterfully depicts movement in immobile images, as well as how he incorporates his new home into his work. His project with a newspaper vending machine is, for example, documented here. WKInteract altered one so that it contained cans of spray paint. He then went around the city with it trying to engage New Yorkers to use the paint to express themselves when something angered them. As he says, I want to do my thing, and I want to show people how they can use a city to do theirs.
DGV, Die Gestalten Verlag
208 pages
24 x 30 cm
full colour, hardcover
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€ 35,00
T-kid was a major stylist in New York in the early eighties and an important voice. He pushed the envelope very far, although his work is still very close to graffiti. People were blown away by how avant- garde he was in the graffiti scene. He is still a big influence around the world.
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€ 29,00
Poch&rock are unusual characters from the Parisian graffiti movement. They meet in 2000 in Rennes and start a productive collaboration,multiplying incursions into different graphical worlds. Painting,collages,stencils,illustrations...
Their practise of graffiti is laid back,free from traditional hiphop representations while still having fun ruffling the codes.
Review on Juxtapoz.
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€ 20,00
116 pages of styles and colors from all over europe. Featuring amongg others: Jaba, Recto, Twist, grey, Rio, Loomit, Seak, La Mano, Pie, Vania, Space Invader, Amaze, Sento, Turser, Nascyo, D. Virus, Mear, Milk, Fume
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€ 32,00
Description: Graffiti great SABERs legend has only grown as his art has evolved, and his presence on the streets remains undiminished. This engrossing monograph is not only a picture-book, but features amazing stories about childhood, life and death, fine art and gra..
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