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Author
Publisher
WS White Star Publishers, a trademark of White Star s.r.l
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the last few decades, art has moved from museums, collections, and art galleries to the streets to take over the city. Visionary artists, gifted with breath-taking expressiveness, have converted the spaces where everyday life takes place - which are often featureless and abandoned - to a new palette, in a new way of expressing their ideas. Once again, art breaks the mold and speaks directly to the audience, without intermediary channels or filters....
Author
Publisher
Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves. This major co-publication with the Museum of Graffiti chronicles the worldwide graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970s, through the street and train painting of the 1980s, to its emergence as an artistic genre admired in museums and sold at auction. With hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of graffiti art from the 1970s to today,...
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before street art became mainstream, the anonymous outlaws of "freight writing" put graffiti on the map. One of the most extreme and risky iterations of the art form, freight train graffiti culture has a rich history, laden with myth-like artists, remarkable romances, and competitive graffiti crews. Delving into the underground subculture reveals the deep connection between graffiti and the American landscape, as well as the artists' obsession with...
5) Anonymouse
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous artist transforms the city through graffiti, inspiring other urban critters to get creative with their own surroundings."--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Graffiti is by nature a protean art. In movies, it is often the backdrop used to create a sense of danger and lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. In protests, it is a resistive tool, visually displaying the cacophony of disparate voices and interests that come together to make up a movement. Every graffito has an unstable afterlife-fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
13) The masterpiece
Author
Language
English
Description
A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want--money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Traces the misadventures of eighteen-year-old Brooklyn resident Kilroy Dondi Vance, a pot-dealing scholarship student whose legendary graffiti-writer father returns after a long absence to sabotage the mayoral campaign of his nemesis, the MTA police chief.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A clever, quirky biography of a leading contemporary artist, for children Banksy is a world-famous graffiti artist who secretly spray paints pictures on streets and walls while no one is watching! His works are often about politics, war, and other important things, but he also likes to paint rats. Rats scurry around and hide, often creating a bit of a stir, just like he does! Millions of people know his work but no one really knows who Bansky is -...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When graffiti starts appearing on buildings all over Aquamarina, Violet and Wally follow the clues to find the culprit! In Book 3 of the series, join the Undersea Mystery Club as they explore the ocean to help their aquatic friends! It's the first day of school, and Violet can't wait to see all of her friends. But after a mysterious blob of paint appears on the school building, Violet and her best friend Wally get to work looking for clues. Soon,...
17) Paint the town
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia and her friends rally their town into recycling, but soon end up with more junk than they know what to do with. Plus, there's a graffiti artist on the loose! --
18) Unfadeable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
19) Off the wall
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
20) Basquiat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1981, a nineteen-year-old unknown graffiti writer takes the New York art world by storm.
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