Street Art The Graffiti Revolution

by Lewisohn, Cedar; Chalfant, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780810983205
• ISBN10: 0810983206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

"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 best-selling books and commanding high prices at auction." "Cedar Lewisohn has written the first account of this visual revolution to trace its history from cave painting through to the vibrant art emerging today on the walls of London, Madrid and Sao Paulo, via Brassai's photographs of 1920s Paris and Basquiat and Haring's New York. Superbly illustrated with over 120 colour photographs of street art from around the world, the book includes interviews with leading street art proponents of the last three decades, taking the reader behind their 'tags' to encounter the often mysterious figures who are transforming cities across the globe."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Cedar Lewisohn is an artist and writer based in London. His recent curated projects include Old Money at Glasgow’s Intermedia Gallery. Henry Chalfant is a world-famous photographer and videographer of urban culture. His photos are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Author's Foreword	p. 9
Street Art or Graffiti?	p. 15
Graffiti
Live in Pompeii	p. 26
Brassai	p. 29
The Evolution of Graffiti	p. 30
Lee	p. 35
Getting the Picture: Martha Cooper	p. 36
Style Wars	p. 39
Futura 2000	p. 41
Early Shows	p. 42
I am Somebody!	p. 43
Graffiti is Addictive	p. 45
Tags (Noms de Guerre)	p. 48
Barry McGee	p. 49
Brazil Style	p. 52
Street Art
Global-style Graffiti, Local-style Street Art	p. 63
Ernest Pignon-Ernest	p. 69
Blek le Rat	p. 70
Art School of Hard Knocks	p. 72
Gordon Matta-Clark	p. 72
Street Art Avant-Garde	p. 75
Dan Witz	p. 77
UnderCulture Gone Mainstream	p. 79
Mixing it up: The Politics
Anti-Modernism (The Barbarians are at the Gates)	p. 87
Jenny Holzer	p. 89
John Fekner	p. 90
Disrupting Systems of Thought	p. 92
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring	p. 93
Setting and Anonymity	p. 100
Obey: Shepard Fairey	p. 101
Survival in Hyper-Reality	p. 104
The Medium is the Message, Sometimes	p. 107
Faile	p. 107
Kaws	p. 109
Advertising	p. 111
Mustafa Hulusi	p. 113
Subvertising	p. 115
Banksy	p. 117
Miss Van	p. 120
JR	p. 123
Museums and Outlaws
Illegal v. Legal	p. 127
Blu	p. 129
Outsiders	p. 130
Invader	p. 133
Sanctioning Bodies	p. 134
Eine	p. 137
The Market	p. 138
Judith Sulpine	p. 138
Swoon	p. 140
The Wooster Collective	p. 143
D*Face	p. 145
Sculpture	p. 146
Crateman	p. 149
Graffiti Research Lab	p. 151
The End is No End	p. 153
Photographic credits	p. 156
Index	p. 157
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