Banksy

Patrick Potter

Gary Shove

Collects the artist's works, from the late 1990s to present, across the major cities of the U.K. and North America.

You are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Weren't You Would Know about it

La gente ama u odia este libro, o nunca ha oído hablar de él. Bansky es lo más parecido al Che Guevara que nos ofrece el siglo XXI. Excepto, por lo que sabemos, que nunca cursó medicina, participó de la Revolución Cubana, ni viajó al Congo o a Bolivia. El lector encontrará en este libro, amorosamente reunida, la única y mejor colección de fotografías del arte callejero de Banksy que jamás se haya editado. Para gran pena de todas las escuelas de arte, es probable que se recuerde a Banksy como el mejor artista británico post-milenio-depresión. Su capacidad para llamar la atención, enviar un mensaje, a menudo con una frase contundente o de sentido ambiguo, le hubiera significado un puesto altísimo en una agencia publicitaria; la pérdida para Madison Avenue es nuestra ganancia. Cuando Banksy comenzó a pintar, el panorama político era desolador. Hoy es diez veces peor. Así que aunque la entrañable y agresiva obra política de Banksy se hace cada vez más importante, nos pareció relevante presentar su arte en el contexto de la época a la que correspondía, considerando los temas de los que se ocupaba. Si el lector nunca ha escuchado hablar de Banksy, este libro es todo lo que necesita para meterse en una discusión de bar acerca del hombre y de su leyenda

Usted Representa Una Amenaza Tolerable Y Si No Fuera Así, Ya Lo SabríA...

Graffiti is art driven by existential hunger: it attacks you only if you are lame, yet it can also inspire mystery and creativity. Featuring works by the likes of Banksy, Faile, Dface and Swoon, 'Untitled' features brilliant images of graffiti collected from all over the world, preserved here before being destroyed and chipped off the walls.

Street Art in the Counter Culture

Untitled

So Just who is the Fixie rider? It's the buzz question that a lot of people want to know right now. If we're to believe some, then the Fixie rider is a horribly spoilt late twenty something male of affluent background. He's never been required to grow up and spends all of his pocket money on cool toys and fads in a never ending effort to be trendy. Cynics would say that the Fixie rider is a myth in the process of being invented by those people who want to sell stuff to rich kids; ie the brands. Through contemporary observation and the collaboration of those on the inside from Taiwan to New York, Brick Lane to Tokyo, 42x12 gives a unique insight into whats going on at ground level.

42 X 12

The Cult of Fixed

This title collects the works of one of the most succesful and well-known street artists ever, Banksy.

You are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Were Not You Would Know about it

The follow up to the critically acclaimed 'Untitled. Street Art in The Counterculture. Untitled II the irreverent book of street art has again been created without the collaboration of the artists and certainly without the permission of the wall owners. There are blatant statements that embody outrageous lies, articles laced with satire, plus cynical synopses of attempts to commercialize street art and make it fashionable via celebrity endorsement. Consideration is given to the question What the hell is it about the color grey that makes it appeal the powers that be and their ridiculous minions? and Outsider Art is it an expression of artistic impulse without interference from the idea of personal gain? All of this amongst a collection of graffiti collected from all over the world and preserved on these pages before the legions employed to destroy them chip them off the walls. Artists featured include Miss Van, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Swoon, Os Gemeos, and Herakut.

Gary Shove

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