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Graffiti World (Hardcover)

Street Art from Five Continents


by Ganz, Nicholas
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    Graffiti World, now updated, is the most comprehensive and bestselling survey of graffiti art ever published. The original collection of more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists around the world is joined by a n......more

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Graffiti World, now updated, is the most comprehensive and bestselling survey of graffiti art ever published. The original collection of more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists around the world is joined by a new section devoted to work created in the five years since the book's first edition.

Graffiti has long been a ubiquitous aspect of the urban landscape, since anonymous, largely unsung spray-can art first hit city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s. 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.

Today's graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums, including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk, as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has guaranteed graffiti's long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world.

Author:
Ganz, Nicholas
ISBN:
9780810980495
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
392
Publish Date:
09/01/2009
Publisher:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Language:
English

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  • Following the unrelated project Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers (powerHouse), which also took an auteur-based approach this past season, Granz (whose pen name is Keinom) widens the scope to present those he sees as the world's top graffiti writers, offering alphabetical sections of artists from the Americas," Europe and """"The Rest of the World."""" Short prefatory histories put New York at the center of the modern graffiti world"," with South American countries like Brazil later having """"reached a high standard."""" The work is beautifully photographed throughout; multiple pieces by each artist are laid out appealingly over verso-recto spreads", along with a paragraph by Granz detailing the artist's origins and the main thrust of the work (and occasionally a photo of the artist him or herself). From gigantic murals to tiny stickers," Granz has seen and photographed it all and talks knowledgeably about everything from """"wildstyle"""" fontage to the non-orthographically based """"character culture", where artists create (and replicate) cartoonish figures in various figurative exploits. Striking a colloquial balance between insider's knowledge and thoughtful presentation, Granz's book should be durable for its cohesion of vision, if not for the scale of presentation of each artist. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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