Street Messages: 1 - Rilegato

Ganz, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 9185639737 ISBN 13: 9789185639731

Casa editrice: Dokument Forlag & Dist, 2015

Riassunto

There is plenty of creativity within the international graffiti and street art scene. Writing text messages in public spaces has been a unique art form and a means of communication between humans for over 30,000 years. Many street artists work only with text, written messages or poems, and not necessarily only with colourful murals, styles, tags and logos. Street Messages is the first publication that delivers a deep insight into this literary form of expression in the world of global street art. The streets are full of artistic and poetic forms of expression messages written by graffiti and street artists. Street Messages offers a historic background to written messages in public spaces and introduces more than 80 artists from across the world who work exclusively or partly with text.The vast body of information and numerous exclusive quotes and words of wisdom makes Street Messages the first book to shed some light on this as yet undocumented form of street art culture. Features artwork by Banksy, Dolk, Ben Eine, Faith 47, Flint..., Kid Acne, Know Hope, Mobstr, Skki and many more. Nicholas Ganz aka Keinom is a freelance photographer and author from Essen, Germany. He started to paint in the streets in 1994 and has been documenting graffiti and street art ever since. In 2004, he published his first book, Graffiti World, which became a world-wide best-seller and was trans- lated into 11 languages. In 2006, he released Graffiti Women and went on to write several books about Burma/Myanmar.

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"Whilst we're all busy looking at the messages on our phones we may well have missed some quite interesting ones in the actual real world. Luckily we have handy new book, Street Messages, to capture these thought provoking and rather witty wall-based words...there's something here for everyone who likes a bit of political comment with their walls." --Proper Magazine

"Street Messages provides a historic background to these public messages, and introduces more than 80 street artists from across the world. The vast body of information and numerous exclusive quotes makes Street Messages the definitive book on this form of street art culture." --LSD Magazine

&quotStreet art and graffiti books need an angle to stand out amongst a sea of similar titles and Nicholas Ganz's latest does that by primarily focusing on sometimes its simplest art form the message." --Art of the State

"These refreshingly nondigital forms of communication encompass the personal and the political, setting themselves apart from the visual clutter of advertising to give expression to a range of artistic reflection and commentary about life on Earth." --Slate

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• Editore: Dokument Forlag & Dist
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9185639737
• ISBN 13: 9789185639731
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144