Author: Chris Freitag
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764346880
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the past three or four years, Detroit has become a "spraycation" spot for graffiti artists. Formerly known as the automotive capital of the world, the media now refers to the Motor City as a bankrupt ruin--a shadow of its former self. Thanks to the city's street artists, however, Detroit is experiencing an artistic renaissance. The author has recorded the work produced by these graffiti writers and documented the evolution of Detroit street art culture in more than a dozen neighborhoods in and around this resilient Midwest city between 2008 and 2013. This photographic dossier is the first book to exclusively feature graffiti from Detroit, where one in every five structures is vacant, abandoned, or dilapidated. As industry disappears, the number of vacant walls increases, drawing the attention of the most talented graffiti artists and writers on the planet.
Detroit Graffiti
Author: Chris Freitag
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764346880
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the past three or four years, Detroit has become a "spraycation" spot for graffiti artists. Formerly known as the automotive capital of the world, the media now refers to the Motor City as a bankrupt ruin--a shadow of its former self. Thanks to the city's street artists, however, Detroit is experiencing an artistic renaissance. The author has recorded the work produced by these graffiti writers and documented the evolution of Detroit street art culture in more than a dozen neighborhoods in and around this resilient Midwest city between 2008 and 2013. This photographic dossier is the first book to exclusively feature graffiti from Detroit, where one in every five structures is vacant, abandoned, or dilapidated. As industry disappears, the number of vacant walls increases, drawing the attention of the most talented graffiti artists and writers on the planet.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764346880
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the past three or four years, Detroit has become a "spraycation" spot for graffiti artists. Formerly known as the automotive capital of the world, the media now refers to the Motor City as a bankrupt ruin--a shadow of its former self. Thanks to the city's street artists, however, Detroit is experiencing an artistic renaissance. The author has recorded the work produced by these graffiti writers and documented the evolution of Detroit street art culture in more than a dozen neighborhoods in and around this resilient Midwest city between 2008 and 2013. This photographic dossier is the first book to exclusively feature graffiti from Detroit, where one in every five structures is vacant, abandoned, or dilapidated. As industry disappears, the number of vacant walls increases, drawing the attention of the most talented graffiti artists and writers on the planet.
Bad Graffiti
Author: Scott Hocking
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781907317828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A collection of photographs by artist Scott Hocking of the 'bad', often humourous graffiti seen in urban areas. As such graffiti is mostly on sites that are derelict or in a state of disrepair, Hocking's work documents the depressing appearance of buildings tarnished by urban decay and abandonment rather than mocking the artists.
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781907317828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A collection of photographs by artist Scott Hocking of the 'bad', often humourous graffiti seen in urban areas. As such graffiti is mostly on sites that are derelict or in a state of disrepair, Hocking's work documents the depressing appearance of buildings tarnished by urban decay and abandonment rather than mocking the artists.
Murals in the Market
Street Talking
Author: Mike Popso
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764341991
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Street Talking is a massive accumulation of graffiti and street art photographs taken over the last decade by photographer Mike Popso. Exploring a cross-continental swath of urban areas, Popso captures hard-to-reach spots where there is an explosion of bright color and brighter ideas on canvases ranging from abandoned schools in Detroit to the back alleys of Istanbul, Turkey. From illegal tagging under ground to the commissioned productions above ground, Street Talking documents works by an entirely new generation of "writers" and artists under the influence of yesterday's masters. An artistic platform for today's global voices in street art, Popso's compilation features works by The MSK Crew and other cutting edge artists working in Detroit, New York, the West Coast, and Europe--a must have for all street art collectors, practitioners, and enthusiasts.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764341991
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Street Talking is a massive accumulation of graffiti and street art photographs taken over the last decade by photographer Mike Popso. Exploring a cross-continental swath of urban areas, Popso captures hard-to-reach spots where there is an explosion of bright color and brighter ideas on canvases ranging from abandoned schools in Detroit to the back alleys of Istanbul, Turkey. From illegal tagging under ground to the commissioned productions above ground, Street Talking documents works by an entirely new generation of "writers" and artists under the influence of yesterday's masters. An artistic platform for today's global voices in street art, Popso's compilation features works by The MSK Crew and other cutting edge artists working in Detroit, New York, the West Coast, and Europe--a must have for all street art collectors, practitioners, and enthusiasts.
Conflict Graffiti
Author: John Lennon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815692
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book 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, reinterpreted, or painted over. In short, as this book artfully explains, graffiti makes for messy politics. It brings the unwieldiness of the crises it engages to the fore, giving shape to a conflict's evolving nature. The book closely examines the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones-moving from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Arab Spring in Egypt to the tourist attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall, to the street art used for city rebranding and beautification in Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but has also been variously appropriated, policed, and exported, ushering in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anaesthetized forgetting. Yet, the book concludes, as protest movements change and adapt in turn, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them, opening up new apertures of resistance with every wave"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815692
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book 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, reinterpreted, or painted over. In short, as this book artfully explains, graffiti makes for messy politics. It brings the unwieldiness of the crises it engages to the fore, giving shape to a conflict's evolving nature. The book closely examines the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones-moving from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Arab Spring in Egypt to the tourist attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall, to the street art used for city rebranding and beautification in Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but has also been variously appropriated, policed, and exported, ushering in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anaesthetized forgetting. Yet, the book concludes, as protest movements change and adapt in turn, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them, opening up new apertures of resistance with every wave"--
Detroit Is No Dry Bones
Author: Camilo J. Vergara
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130110
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130110
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric
From the Platform 2
Author: Paul Cavalieri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764352904
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.k.a. KEY, and Paul, a.k.a. CAVS, immersed themselves in the graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx, dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before, during, and after the act. "Bombing" "White Elephants" with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their lives--until 1989, when the last painted train was removed from service. Tags by names like QUIK, IZTHEWIZ, and many others appear here in color exposures, and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Wars--the seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culture--kicks things off.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764352904
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.k.a. KEY, and Paul, a.k.a. CAVS, immersed themselves in the graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx, dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before, during, and after the act. "Bombing" "White Elephants" with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their lives--until 1989, when the last painted train was removed from service. Tags by names like QUIK, IZTHEWIZ, and many others appear here in color exposures, and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Wars--the seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culture--kicks things off.
Canvas Detroit
Author: Julie Pincus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338801
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338801
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.
Walking Detroit
Author: JeeYeun Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578717845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalog of art work by JeeYeun Lee about Detroit made 2016-2018
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578717845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalog of art work by JeeYeun Lee about Detroit made 2016-2018
Revok
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584235521
Category : Assemblage (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revok is undoubtedly one of the most renowned graffiti writers on the planet. Although he's originally from Los Angeles and has travelled the world over, in his adopted home of Detroit, this gifted artist has found grist for an entirely new form. This newer body of work is comprised of found materials from abandoned buildings throughout Detroit. These colourfully textured 3D collages are highly sought after by collectors and fully documented in the book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584235521
Category : Assemblage (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revok is undoubtedly one of the most renowned graffiti writers on the planet. Although he's originally from Los Angeles and has travelled the world over, in his adopted home of Detroit, this gifted artist has found grist for an entirely new form. This newer body of work is comprised of found materials from abandoned buildings throughout Detroit. These colourfully textured 3D collages are highly sought after by collectors and fully documented in the book.