Graffiti Murals

by Patrick Verel
Graffiti Murals
Author: Patrick Verel
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Graffiti
ISBN: 9780764348990
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Six case studies, conducted in New York City, Trenton, and Jersey City, explore how graffiti murals are created and what role they play in cities where buffing illegal graffiti is a lucrative business. The author interviewed people affected on a daily basis by the murals at sites around the metropolitan area, including property owners who have welcomed the muralists in hopes that the artwork would serve as a deterrent to vandalism--and provide a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to buffing. This analysis, informed by cultural Marxism and supported by street photography, suggests a radical departure from traditional New York City policy: instead of spending money exclusively on the elimination of illegal graffiti, resources should also be devoted to the creation of graffiti murals. In the end, graffiti removal teams and mural promoters are pursuing the same goal: making the city a more visually appealing place.

Graffiti L.A.

by Steve Grody
Graffiti L.A.
Author: Steve Grody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:
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This comprehensive and visual history of graffiti in Los Angeles examines the myriad styles and techniques used by writers today.A.Us most prolific and infamous writers provide insight into the lives of these fugitive artists.

Chicano Graffiti and Murals

by Sojin Kim
Chicano Graffiti and Murals
Author: Sojin Kim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Mexican American mural painting and decoration
ISBN: 9781617030666
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A study of an artist and his art that proliferates over north Los Angeles

New Orleans

by Kady Perry
New Orleans
Author: Kady Perry
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733184731
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The wild, ramshackle streets of New Orleans tell a rich story of life, loss, celebration, and change. Winding through her veins-where rambling oak trees drenched in Spanish moss tower over uneven sidewalks-you discover colorful shotgun houses, doorknobs fashioned as skulls, the sweet smell of Southern Satsumas, and an unrestrained year-round celebration of music, culture, and art peppered with plenty of human characters. It's a celebration that has drawn visitors from all over the world and has made New Orleans a hotspot for creative types to live, work, and play. It is also home to two of the most controversial and accessible genres of art: street art and graffiti. The walls-even the ones that are blank or bombed by tags-are drenched in history and stand as witnesses to the city's resilience. They are pages torn from a book about the Crescent City, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot.

The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti

by Rafael Schacter
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
Author: Rafael Schacter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300199422
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DIVAn authoritative guide to the most significant artists, schools, and styles of street art and graffiti around the world/div

Street Art San Francisco

by Annice Jacoby
Street Art San Francisco
Author: Annice Jacoby
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810996359
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With 600 stunning photographs, this comprehensive book showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Beginning in the early 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic, multicultural community. Rigo, Las Mujeres Muralistas, Gronk, Barry McGee (Twist), R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, the Billboard Liberation Front, Swoon, Sam Flores, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Juana Alicia, Os Gemeos, Reminesce, and Andrew Schoultz are among the many artists who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery. Essays and commentaries by insiders involved with the movement document the artistic, social, and political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo.

Revolution Graffiti

by Mia Gröndahl
Revolution Graffiti
Author: Mia Gröndahl
Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789774165764
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The Egyptian Revolution that began on 25 January 2011 immediately gave rise to a wave of popular political and social expression in the form of graffiti and street art, phenomena that were almost unknown in the country under the old regime. Mia Gröndahl, the photographer of Gaza Graffiti: Messages of Love and Politics and Tahrir Square: The Heart of the Egyptian Revolution, has followed and documented the constantly and rapidly changing graffiti art of the new Egypt from its beginnings, and here in more than 400 full-color images celebrates the imagination, the skill, the humor, and the political will of the young artists and activists who have claimed the walls of Cairo and other Egyptian cities as their canvas. From the simplest hand-written messages, through stencils and martyr portraits, to the elaborate murals of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, the messages on the walls are presented in themed sections-Revolution & Freedom, Egyptian & Proud, Cross & Crescent, Martyrs & Heroes-punctuated by interviews with some of the individual artists whose work has broken fresh ground.

Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

by Jeffrey Ian Ross
Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art
Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317645855
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The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art; Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art; Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and, Effects of Graffiti and Street Art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.

Stay Up!

by G. James Daichendt
Stay Up!
Author: G. James Daichendt
Publisher: Cameron
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781937359348
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Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art is an investigation of the global phenomenon of street art. Told from the perspective of artists working in Los Angeles, it offers a new vantage point for understanding an art form that is widely popular yet has been the subject of speculation and much uncertainty. Questions whether street art is the next major art movement or if it a simply a trend and the differences between graffiti and street art are explored. A number of counterintuitive themes plague street art but that does not stop the excitement and enthusiasm surrounding this engaging and exciting art form. Street art has exploded as a creative outlet and progressed from a counter culture movement based in graffiti in previous decades to a legitimate business platform in design, fashion, film, publishing, and art. The author explores the uniqueness of L.A. along with some of the successes and pitfalls these creative artists encounter. The major themes presented will familiarize the reader with the street art scene in L.A. and add new meaning to this creative capital.