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| Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents | 
 enlarge | Author: Nicholas Ganz
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (51 reviews)
Sales Rank: 15382
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 376
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 9.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0810949792
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.73
EAN: 9780810949799
ASIN: 0810949792
Publication Date: October 26, 2004
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Book Description
Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. 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 and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published.
Today's young 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 earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world. Great fun for graffiti and pop-culture buffs, the book is also an essential reference work for anyone involved in the visual arts today. AUTHOR BIO: Nicholas Ganz (also known as Keinom, his pen name) is a graffiti artist who has traveled around the world to gather material for this book. He lives in Essen, Germany. Tristan Manco is a graphic artist and director of Bristol-based Tijuana Design. He is the author of Stencil Graffiti and Street Logos.
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 Pure pleasure! July 20, 2008
Great quality pictures! Amazing graffitis and some other kind of wall art by artist and continent.
 Worldly June 5, 2008
I bought this for my 14 year old daughter and would recommend this for any urban artist. It captures so many excellent murals and other types of graffiti from around the world. Just when you think you've found your favorite artist, you turn the page to find another. Regardless of how you feel about scripture on walls, trains and buses, the art and freedom that exudes from each picture is awesome and beyond the descriptive word. They just are!
 Ripped Cover April 20, 2008
The book is rad, there is better street art out there than what is in thisb book but it was still worth the purchase. It was delivered in a heshen bag with a ripped cover.
Graffiti World February 13, 2008
I bought this book for my boyfriend (who loves graffiti art) for Christmas and he loved it! :)
Excelente libro!! un gran muestra de arte urbano a todo nivel!! February 8, 2008
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Escribo estas lineas como un amante del graffiti y de la cultura urbana en general. Como tal debo decir que soy muy exigente cuando veo libros o revistas sobre este tipo de arte, habiendo ya comprado varias ediciones y libros que se venden aqui en Amazon asi como en diversas librerias como en Espana y Chile. Sin embargo, ninguno se compara a este en lo que se refiere a la calidad de las imagenes y la seleccion de las obras (porque vaya que son reales obras de arte!!). Este libro aborda no distintos aspectos del greffiti, pues hace una breve introduccion en la cual describe la historia de este arte desde la epoca antigua, hasta la historio del mismo en nuestros dias. Luego de pasar por mas de 350 paginas de gloriosos disenos, el libro termina dando una breve sintesis de los datos de informacion de los diston "crews" o grupos, un glosario, bibliografia de respaldo y hasta una lista de paginas web y revistas de referencia.
En lo respecta a la vedette del libro, esto es, las imagenes, estas son simplemente espectaculares!! En efecto, en este libro se han registrado las mas impactantes y representativas imagenes de las pincipales capitales mundiales del graffiti. Asi tenemos en un solo libro una seleccion de algunos de los mejores graffitis de Chile, Brasil, Nueva York, Los Angeles, Italia, Francia, Alemania, Japon, entre otros. Si bien es cierto por la fecha de edicion del mismo (2004) no han recogido mas obras representativas de ciudades latinoamericanas (como la barca del Rio Mapocho en Chile, graffitis de Rio o Sau Paulo, o el reciente boom artistico registrado en Lima-Peru, el cual ha sido objeto de reportajes en noticieros) este no deja de ser un importante registro pictorico de lo que representa tanto artistica como culturalmente el mundo del graffiti.
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