Product Description

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?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8028 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review
I've got every darn book printed on the scene including my now much revered first edition of Faith of Graffiti by dear dead Norman Mailer and this magnificent tome beats them all, even anything by El Banksy. Really it's a great book, part fiction, part document, it's in a category all of it's own. --Beautiful Crime said:

Review
This one I'd reference as tasty popcorn and perhaps there lies its zeitgeist and achievement. There's loads of great artwork inside and the pictures are well shot. The random stops, texts and sort of useful via useless explanation in things did get addictive. I raced through them. I didn't close the book til I'd gotten through it all.
The book feels like a well communicated poem. Pictures and words interacting to create a commentary that is punk enough to follow its own drum.

Review
A completely different take on the graffiti book with this trip around the worlds best street art. Where else can you find a line such as "So when they put the flags on the moon, how is that not tagging"?
All in all its in a class of its own and all the better for it.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant...
This is so much more than a cofee table book. It has wonderful pictures that keep you turning the pages and draws from all the names you know and several you don't, but they are only half the story. What makes this book is the accompanying text which makes every page a discussion point, even if it's only in your own head.

Superb...

A true enthusiasts book
This is a really well produced book full of wonderful images of street art.
It is very clear that it has been written by people with a genuine love of the genre.
I am so delighted with it that i have already given a couple of copies to friends as presents.

A gem . . .
Makes for a really interesting introduction into the innovators in street art for anyone not au fait. The book takes an in depth look at those that are pushing the envelope including a lot of stuff I'd never seen before. Glad to see it included a couple of my personal favourites Judith Supine and Elbowtoe, as well as some quality pics from the Cans Festival.
It has an edgy quality to it which I quite like, and it's not afraid to challenge the reader. Have had this book about 2 weeks and find myself coming back to it again and again. I think when the dust settles on street art it'll be seen as an important history resource.

Nice one.