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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.
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Posted February 6, 2010
I bought this book as a gift. It was a request, but I went to BN to look at the book and I was very much impressed with the contents of the book. This is not my kind of book, but for the person that recieved the book they were thrilled with how it was layed out, the information that was inside, and it contained many different things in book. After the book was received by this person, they told me that they couldn't keep their nose out of the book. I thought the price was well worth it also.
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Posted February 13, 2007
The book has a great out look on some of the best writers out there, not to mention full of street art.
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Posted November 22, 2005
Nicholas Ganz has researched the topic of Street Art known in some circles as Graffiti and in this comprehensive book has gathered images not only from the United States but from five continents, images identified by artist with a brief biography accompanied by panorama shots of the larger scale works coupled with details. The result is a complex, lavishly illustrated survey of the art form of the streets and the people who create it. Graffiti is still a controversial subject. The one form of graffiti which simply marks gang areas or swiftly splays across windows and freeway overhangs and covers billboards is not the issue here. Yes, there is a destructive force to some forms of defacement known as tagging. But that is not the subject of this book. Not unlike the fine little Indie film 'The Graffiti Artist' by James Bolton, this book follows the art forms developed by various artists which are more like the murals of yesteryear that are now hallowed as masterpieces. Think Orozco, WPA, etc. Ganz writes well and his commentary, while mostly descriptive, does delve into some of the philosophical elements of Graffiti Art. Perhaps to those who view any art from a spray can as defacement and the work of hoodlums, this book will open the mind to a popular art of the street. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: perhaps that eye will benefit from this well-designed, well-written, and well-documented survey of international graffiti art. Grady Harp
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Posted March 5, 2006
OK let's start. 1st i think this book is outstanding is because it delivers almost 400 graffiti artist's in it that offer many types of style from wildstyle, marshmallow, blow ups,murals, wheat-paste, stencils, and characters of all shapes and sizes. 2nd i loved this book because it proves graffiti art is a new revolution sweeping from country to country. Soon the writters are gonna be taggin on the moon. 3rd and last but not least that i loved this book is that any one artist (graffiti, or any) can go and just bomb a whole transit line or just a wall in the city from what they seen in this book just jokin that would be byting. Be 4 signin off yall. peace! CMS ya heard!!! OH! one more thing this is what graffiti art stands for:Graffiti G graffing R reasons A and F forms F from I intrest T tagging I into Art A all R reason T tagging. Good one huh?
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Posted November 19, 2005
i think that this is one of the best book on peicing that is out there right now,i like that it goes over some of the biggest crews that are on the set all over the world.
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Posted October 30, 2005
As you can tell, the book looks preety thick. It has graff from all over the globe.The only thing I didn't like about it is that the author throws in some stencil graffiti or some wall design company with graffiti based images in there. In my opinion ,he also missed out on some of the best graffiti bombers in the game right now. I think his approach was to display it more as an art form...but missed out on the tagging,throw-up and bombing aspect of graffiti.Over all the book is a must have for anybody thats interested in graffiti.
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Posted January 4, 2005
The book contains full color pictures and spreads from the Oldschool as well as the Newschool. The appreciation in this 'world wide wall art' still dubbed 'graffiti' today is now seen in it's multitude of styles and influences from artists, novices and 24-7 er's who still take risk in getting their name up.. If you want to see the 'reinvented and the reinvigorated art' which was once labeled the 'eyesore of the 70's' revisit the pages of this encyclopedia of the who's-who's of wicked styles!
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Overview
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 ...