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Graffiti Cookbook - Dokument Press | Tue 15 Oct, 2013 Graffiti Cookbook Dokument Press | Tue 15 Oct, 2013
A rich source of inspiration for anyone interested in do-it-yourself culture. Graffiti Cookbook is a guide to the materials and techniques used within today’s most creative and progressive art movement. In hundreds of pictures and illustrations and a dozen of interviews with some of the world’s most famous artists the authors show how graffiti is made. From spray techniques and hand styles to tools and style analysis, Graffiti Cookbook takes us on a trip around the world in the search of the tricks and trades of graffiti writers. After hundreds of books filled with pictures of graffiti published in the last few years finally one is showing how the artists work. Graffiti Cookbook is filled with tips and examples of how to create your own piece, tag and throw up. These techniques can be used on all kinds of materials, textile, glass, metal, concrete or wood. Graffiti Cookbook gives an unique insight in the alternative art world and is a rich inspiration source for those interested in do-it-yourself-culture. Swet, Jurne, Mad C, Egs and Chob are some of the featured artists in the book.
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FUN Gallery - Patti Astor | Sat 6 Oct, 2012 FUN Gallery Patti Astor | Sat 6 Oct, 2012
The True Story focuses on the ‘80’s in New York’s legendary East Village as told by Patti Astor "Queen of the Downtown Scene". Get down with the FUN Gallery Crew Keith Haring, Fab 5 Freddy, Jean Michel Basquiat, DONDI, LEE, Kenny Scharf and Zephyr hanging with Rock Steady Crew, Clash, Leo Castelli, Johnny Rotten, Julian Schnabel, Andy Warhol, Matt Dillon and Madonna!
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The Language of the streets - Patrick J Mc Laughlin | Sun 6 May, 2012 The Language of the streets Patrick J Mc Laughlin | Sun 6 May, 2012
In this volume the author chose to focus on the terraced street in Belfast; this investigation lead him to examine the derelict areas known as Monarch and the Village. This lead to considerations on what a street is, how it should be used and what it means to people. The author devises four different ways of rehabilitating the area through architecture and infrastructure.
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New York City Graffiti” - The Destiny Children (TDC) | Fri 28 Oct, 2011 New York City Graffiti” The Destiny Children (TDC) | Fri 28 Oct, 2011
This true story and retrospective documents the life and times of members of The Destiny Children (TDC) graffiti crew from 1985 to 2000. From Long Island, New York, The Destiny Children/Unlimited Styled Artists commemorate the 25-year history of the crew and their impact on the New York City subway graffiti era. This large collector’s book is loaded with 500 color images of original art ranging from burners on hand ball courts to pieces on tractor trailers to works throughout the New York City subway system. Works by many established NYC graffiti artists are featured, including founding members DC3 and SHO. Other original members featured are ZOO, SHOROZ, BEAVER, LAE, LAC2, ROE, DOOJ, SHIM, and ONE2. Works by affiliated writers, ZEUS TDC, CEOS, ROZ One, SHARE 37, POKE IBM, EPIC, RECK, SKETCH, KARL TCM, DEON, BOM 5 MW, SACE RIP, MIRAGE RIP, and others are documented. Alongside the visual accounts of these artistic exploits are dozens of true stories and recollections that uncover the reality of painting in yards, lay ups, racking spray paint, fights, graffiti beefs, and police raids. See what made TDC take extraordinary risks so their street art could be seen by the public in their never-ending quest for fame. An ideal history for artists, art historians, street art enthusiasts, anthropologists, and urban dwellers.
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Graffiti Lives - Gregory J Snyder | Mon 25 Jul, 2011 Graffiti Lives Gregory J Snyder | Mon 25 Jul, 2011
On the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape. In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to “get up,” run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker “GWIZ”), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of new work, created a blackbook for writers to tag, and took countless photographs to document this world — over sixty included in the book. A combination of amazing “flicks” and exhilarating prose, Graffiti Lives is ultimately an exploration into how graffiti writers define themselves. Snyder details that writers are not bound together by appearance or language or birthplace or class but by what they do. And what they do is reach for fame, painting their names as prominently as they can. What’s more, he discovers that, though many public officials think graffiti writing will only lead to other criminal activity, many graffiti writers have turned their youthful exploits into adult careers — from professional aerosol muralists and fine artists to designers of all kinds, employed in such fields as tattooing, studio art, magazine production, fashion, and guerilla marketing. In fact, some of the artists featured have gone on to international acclaim and to their own gallery shows. Snyder’s illuminating work shows that getting up tags, throw-ups, and pieces on New York City’s walls and subway tunnels can lead to getting out into the city’s competitive professional world. Graffiti Lives details the exciting, risky, and surprisingly rewarding pursuits of contemporary graffiti writers.
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World Piecebook - Sacha Jenkins & David Villorent | Tue 31 May, 2011 World Piecebook Sacha Jenkins & David Villorent | Tue 31 May, 2011
Graffiti goes global in this third volume of never-before-published blackbook drawings from writers around the world. Like the hugely successful volumes it follows, this latest collection mimics that most valuable of graffiti gear--the blackbook. Nearly 150 private drawings by top artists from every corner of the globe are featured in this volume. Mirroring the revolutionary format of their previous books Piecebook and Piecebook Reloaded, Jenkins’s and Villorente’s World Piecebook presents rare and personal illustrations straight from the collections of artists such as Atome, Demote, and Casino from Australia; Kas and Resm from Belgium; Swet, Bates, and Rens from Denmark; Virus, Zek, and Bacon from Canada; Lunar and Dock from Croatia; Oker, Drax, and Zombie from England; Lemon and Angel from Serbia; Os Gemeos, Nami, and Rio from Brazil; Dare and Ders from Switzerland; Shiro, Sniper, and Nezm from Japan; Rek, Ske, and Blend from Puerto Rico, and more. With an introduction by Sacha Jenkins, World Piecebook will be a must-have book for graffiti writers and their fans around the globe.
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Art in the Streets - Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman & Aaron Rose | Tue 12 Apr, 2011 Art in the Streets Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman & Aaron Rose | Tue 12 Apr, 2011
The first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graffiti and street art and other vibrant subcultures, such as those that developed around Hip Hop in the Bronx and skateboarding in Southern California, Art in the Streets explores parallel movements in dance and music. The exhibition is curated by MoCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, working with a curatorial advisory committee that includes Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose.
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New York Subway Graffiti - Tod Lange | Sat 20 Feb, 2010 New York Subway Graffiti Tod Lange | Sat 20 Feb, 2010
Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti writers of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s transit system graveyards, including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented underdogs. The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the writers talking about their art and recalling their wild antics. This is an informative, nostalgic look at New York subway graffiti.
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Kings Way - Martin Harvey, Duro Cubrilo & Karl Stamer | Wed 1 Jul, 2009 Kings Way Martin Harvey, Duro Cubrilo & Karl Stamer | Wed 1 Jul, 2009
A quarter of a century ago, the New York City hip-hop phenomenon left its mark on Australian walls; a graffiti-writing culture was born. In a barrage of blinding colour, cryptic words and bombed out train carriages, Kings Way tells the story of Melbourne’s emerging underground writing scene and the youth whose sole purpose was to get up. Using the city’s walls and trains as their ephemeral canvas, these writers pioneered the elaborate spray-paint artworks that continue to dominate Melbourne’s cityscape. With more than 1200 full colour images, this volume captures the rapid changes in styles in these early years, as Melbourne’s graffiti evolved from basic tags through to explosive full colour masterpieces. Part visual encyclopaedia, part social history, Kings Way chronicles the events, spaces, materials and folklore that made up the lives of Melbourne’s early writers. Compiled by active participants in the subculture across this period, it pays tribute to the individuals and crews who laid the foundation for Melbourne’s reputation as a graffiti style capital.
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Graffiti Planet: The Best Graffiti from Around the World - Ket | Mon 29 Oct, 2007 Graffiti Planet: The Best Graffiti from Around the World Ket | Mon 29 Oct, 2007
Graffiti or ‘street art’ has become a significant art form in the last twenty years and, ever controversial, has transformed urban landscapes all over the world. Graffiti Planet is a collection of work from various artists that celebrates the endless creativity of the medium, and of the artists themselves. Featuring 100 glossy photos of groundbreaking graffiti and including an introduction from Ket, a legend on the graffiti scene, Graffiti Planet is a great introduction and the perfect companion for anyone excited by this most vibrant and democratic of art forms.
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