Книги про графіті, стріт-арт та urban art мистецтва

Цей яскравий тритомник досліджує культові роботи Бенксі крізь призму деяких його найпотужніших символів — щурів, мавп та дітей.

Незалежно від того, чи протестує він проти війни, кидає виклик суспільним нормам, чи порушує політичні та економічні системи своєю гострою критикою, стратегічне та винахідливе використання символізму Бенксі є одним з його найефективніших інструментів. Відома дослідниця Бенксі Алессандра Маттанза допомагає читачам зрозуміти та контекстуалізувати деякі з найвідоміших мотивів Бенксі. Ці томи, сповнені зображень, що охоплюють його творчість з початку 2000-х років, наповнені фотографіями та репродукціями деяких з його найвідоміших робіт, на яких зображені щури — «Нехай їдять крек», «Щур усередині годинника», мавпи — «Смійся зараз» та «Делегований парламент»; та діти — «Дівчина з повітряною кулькою» та «Дівчина, що обшукує солдата». Тут також висвітлено його роботу з питань міського опору, включаючи такі твори, як «Кидальник квітів» та «Син мігранта із Сирії». У своїх вступних есе Маттанза заглиблюється в унікальний резонанс творчості Бенксі; його дотепність і проникливість; а також його дивовижна здатність створювати стійкі послання на ефемерному полотні.

Про автора:

Алессандра Маттанца — іноземний кореспондент, автор і редактор кількох видавництв в Італії та Німеччині. Її попередні книги — Street Art: Famous Artists Talk About Their Vision, Women Street Artists та Banksy. Вона живе в Нью-Йорку.

Хитра група вуличних художників привласнює громадські місця за допомогою дивовижних художніх втручань. We Come at Night представляє роботи тринадцяти вуличних художників, чиї художні втручання не лише естетично вмотивовані, але й функціонують як гострий соціальний, політичний та іронічний коментар до навколишнього. Серед представлених артистів Akim One Machine, Blu, Brom, Dr. Innocent, JR, Kami & Sasu, Mare 139, Mr. Horse, Nina, Nixfitti, Os Gemeos, Zasd and Zevs.

Книга містить DVD із документальним фільмом Фолькера Саттеля та Маріо Ментрупа про проект Outsides, ініційований Red Bull.

Найповніша монографія про загадкового французького художника – оновлена, щоб включити абсолютно нові роботи

Наповнена приголомшливими фотографіями, ця надзвичайна монографія описує низку спільних проектів JR, виконаних по всьому світу.

Створений у тісній співпраці з художником, він містить розділи про кожну з основних робіт JR – від Expo2Rue, який використовує вулицю як полотно для початку своєї кар’єри як художника, до Хронік Маямі, які вийшли в листопаді 2023 року. Він також включає його співпрацю з іншими артистами та установами, такими як New York City Ballet, кінорежисер Агнес Варда, і журнал Time.

Передмова легенди Голлівуду Джорджа Лукаса, спеціально створений графічний роман художника коміксів Джозефа Ремнента, оновлений оглядовий нарис Нато Томпсона та короткий твір італійського режисера Еліс Рорвахер — усе це разом розповідає захоплюючу історію Дж. Ар.

Про авторів:

JR є загадковим французьким художником, який стоїть за деякими з найпровокаційніших у світі великомасштабних проектів публічної фотографії. Його роботи з’являються по всьому світу, зокрема нещодавно в Палаці Гарньє в Парижі.

Джозеф Ремнант – художник/карикатурист із Лос-Анджелеса, чиї комікси та ілюстрації з’являлися в журналі Arthur , Juxtapoz та New York Times.

Нато Томпсон – автор і колишній головний куратор Creative Time у Нью-Йорку.

Аліса Рорвахер – італійська режисерка та співрежисер короткометражного фільму «Омелія Контадіна» разом з Дж. Ар.

Джордж Лукас — кінорежисер, продюсер і сценарист, засновник Lucasfilm.

Кармен Еррера Лоуренс – письменниця, яка народилася в Нью-Йорку та має досвід творчої документальної літератури. Вона працює в студії JR, де керує його комунікаціями та підтримує виробництво проектів.

Марк Азуле є куратором, продюсером і директором студії художника JR; він керував створенням численних громадських арт-проектів, музейних виставок, книг, додатків, а також повнометражних і короткометражних фільмів.

The first and much-anticipated book by visual artist, club creator, and nightlife impresario André Saraiva presents his wide range of works, from street art and contemporary art to graphic design, photography, and his influences on fashion and nightlife.

Street-cool visual artist-cum-nightlife guru, André Saraiva, whose life dovetails into graffiti subculture, chic jet-setting, and the fashion world, presents an autobiographical visual diary of sorts, a revealing window into the worlds he inhabits. This visual journey is an interactive and striking object itself, with either a vibrant pink cloth- or blue cloth-cover (randomly selected), Saraiva’s distinctive handwriting in foil, and seven pop-ups he designed. 

Chances are that while you’ve been strolling through the streets of Paris, London, New York, or Los Angeles, you may have caught a glimpse of Saraiva’s signature graffiti of Mr. A on a random street wall. Or you may have seen him in the Banksy film, Exit Through the Gift Shop; spied him in the front rows of the Paris Fashion Week shows; or seen him at one of his many chic nightclubs. Graffiti Life is a never-before-seen look at the artist’s many spheres through which he effortlessly moves: street culture, contemporary art, graphic design, photography, fashion, and nightlife. It follows Saraiva’s art/life trajectory, and includes his Instagram-worthy tags on the streets of Paris; countless silk-screened posters; paintings and sculpture; creative collaborations with Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Colette, and more.

About the Author:

André Saraiva is an artist, hotelier, and entrepreneur. Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. Magda Danysz is a French art curator and art dealer. Glenn O’Brien (1947–2017) was a writer who focused largely on the subjects of art, music, and fashion. Jeffrey Deitch is an American art dealer and curator. 

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Пролистать книгу Andre Saraiva: Curated Chaos: Graffiti Life

The most comprehensive book to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally.

Forty years ago, graffiti in New York evolved from elementary mark-making into an important art form. By the end of the 1980s, it had been documented in books and films that were seen around the world, sparking an international graffiti movement.

This original edition, now back in print after several years, considers the rise of New York graffiti and the international scenes it inspired--from Los Angeles to São Paulo to Paris to Tokyo -- as well as earlier and parallel movements: the break dancing and rap music of hip-hop; the graffiti used by Chicano gangs to mark their territory; the skateboarding culture that began in Southern California. Expertly researched, beautifully illustrated, and featuring contributions by many of the most significant curators, writers, and artists involved in the graffiti world, this now classic volume is an in-depth examination of this seminal movement.

About the Authors:

Jeffrey Deitch has helped to build the careers of some of the leading contemporary artists as a gallerist and curator. He is the former Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 
Roger Gastman is an artist, curator, and producer. 
Fab 5 Freddy is a musician, artist, and producer. 
Greg Tate is a writer and musician who lives in New York. 
Carlo McCormick is a pop culture critic and curator living in New York.

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Пролистать книгу Art in the Streets

- An immersive dive into the world of Banksy

- Included : Banksy's last works in Ukraine

- The royalties from this book will be donated to the association SOS MEDITERRANEE, which helps migrants (one of Banksy's fights)

This book presents the richness, diversity and strength of the work of the most famous street art artist in the world... and yet nobody knows his identity. We are invited to follow the evolution of the artist from England to the United States, France, Israel and the Ukraine, and through more than a hundred emblematic works, all explained. This is the original Catalog Raisonné of the Banksy Museum, in which all these works are reproduced in their urban contexts, allowing the general public to discover them in a realistic way and to grasp their strength, including those that have been stolen or defaced and no longer exist.

About the Author:

Hazis Vardar, owner and producer of theaters (notably The Palace Nightclub in Paris) is the founder of the Banksy museums (in Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, Prague, Milan and Dubai). Banksy was born in Bristol, Great Britain, around 1974. He became a key figure in the world of street art in the mid-1990s with his provocative and unique style. Today he is the world's most fashionable street artist.

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough, you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. Here's the best of his work in a fully illustrated colour volume - including brand material.

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Пролистать русскоязычное издание книги Banksy. Wall and Piece на Google Books.

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough, you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. Here's the best of his work in a fully illustrated colour volume - including brand material.

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Пролистать русскоязычное издание книги Banksy. Wall and Piece на Google Books.

Clever and provocative urban interventions by a master of the genre.

With the element of surprise firmly on his side, the American artist Brad Downey creates powerful interventions that visually disrupt the routine of our urban perceptions. Downey’s art discourages quick glances and celebrates the double take. Using elements from film, sculpture, painting, and drawing, he creates remarkable work ranging from the spectacular and headline-making to the small, delicate, and almost hidden. This book is the most comprehensive collection of what Brad Downey calls his Spontaneous Sculptures. It brings together attractive, provocative, and clever urban interventions by a master of the genre — many of which are documented for the first time.

In cities, where does public space stop and privacy begin? Which experiences are purely personal and which ones are driven by commercially motivated impulses? Can we see the city and ourselves for what they actually are amidst the vast array of signs and images clamoring for our attention? The American artist Brad Downey tackles these and other structural, social, and political questions in his work. With the element of surprise firmly on his side, he creates powerful interventions that disrupt the routine of our visual perception. A shopping cart becomes a sculpture, a telephone booth is filled with balloons, and a stop sign is turned upside down. Using elements from film, sculpture, painting, and drawing, Downey creates remarkable work ranging from the spectacular and headline-making to the small, delicate, and almost hidden. Downey’s interventions in the cityscape can be spontaneous, subtle, and fleeting — it is precisely the way they interact with their surroundings that make them so effective. Some exist for barely half an hour before they are “corrected” again; others integrate themselves into the urban landscape and become a permanent work of art in the process. Downey’s art discourages quick glances and celebrates the double take. It encourages the viewer to take a hard look and refreshes the powers of discrimination that so often become jaded in the visual Babylon of our times.

About the Author:

Brad Downey earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting under the tutelage of Bruce McLean. He holds workshops throughout the world and has been invited to create his “spontaneous sculptures” in places including New York, Berlin, Moscow, London, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai.

A visual account of the birth of graffiti and street art, showcasing as-yet-unseen works collected by preeminent artist Martin Wong. Referred to by the New York Times as an artist "whose meticulous visionary realism is among the lasting legacies of New York’s East Village art scene of the 1980s," Martin Wong (1946–1999) was firmly entrenched in the NYC street art world of the late ’70s and ’80s. City as Canvas chronicles the most important chapter in the street art movement and the artists involved. Showcasing Wong’s enormous graffiti art collection, the book contains artwork, photographs, black books, letters, postcards, posters, and flyers made by Wong and his artist friends. The book contains previously unpublished art by famous street artists such as Futura, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher "Daze" Ellis, LA II, Lady Pink, and Keith Haring, to name only a few.

City as Canvas traces the origins of urban self-expression and the era of "outlaw" street art in New York, which primed the floodgates for graffiti art to spread worldwide. Exhibition Schedule: Museum of the City of New York: Opens October 2013

About the Author:

Writer and curator Carlo McCormick is the author of numerous books on contemporary art and artists. His writing has appeared in Art in America, Art News, Artforum, Spin, Tokion, and Vice, among other publications. He is the senior editor of Paper magazine. Sean Corcoran is the Curator of Prints and Photography at the Museum of the City of New York. Sacha Jenkins is a journalist, author, and TV producer. His writing has appeared in Vibe, Spin, Rolling Stone, Complex, and Mass Appeal. Christopher "Daze" Ellis is a street and studio artist. Lee Quinones is a street artist and actor.

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Пролистать книгу City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti From the Martin Wong Collection

Street art turns big-city streets into open-air art exhibitions, producing significant socio-cultural impact and making for more universal communication, bacause people who have never set foot in a museum are absorbed by this artistic macroexhibition. In the pages of this book we’ll find all sort of characters with something in common: the word cute. Characters made of spray, acrylic, chalk, charcoal, and felt-tip maker invade the city until they become recognizable and permanently emblazoned on our retinas. This book is a curated street art compilation from cities such as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Venice, Río de Janeiro, New York City, Bilbao, Istambul, Athens, Madrid… Cute Graffiti features the cutiest characters by the hand of some of the best street art artists such as: FAFI, TVBOY, SAVAGE GIRL, CHU, 1980 CREW, MISS VAN, DIVA, LOLO, PEZ, NANO 4814, FLYING FORTRESS, D’FACE, LYLEA, BIRDIE, RING, RITA, BTOY, SIXEART, XUPET NEGRE, MEGAN, SPACE INVADERS, MONSIEUR ANDRÉ, KORALIE, CHANOIR, KEFLI, THELONDONPOLICE, OBEY GIANT…

In December of 2006, an unlikely group of nearly 100 street artists from all over the world came together to participate in an art show celebrating Eleven Spring Street, long a premiere destination on the international Street Art map. The New York Times wrote, "One of the best shows of the season flamed past just before Christmas: a weekend-long display of graffiti created by artists from around the world at, and in honor of, 11 Spring Street."

The methodology was mixed media to the max: Wheatpaste, paper, spray paint, house paint, markers, metal objects, found objects the result was chaotic yet undeniably arresting. Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective curated the three-day event, calling the show Wooster on Spring. It featured street art superstars like Shepard Fairey and Swoon as well as emergent talents including JR, Prune, and Doze Green.

The result was a potent mix of artists who brought the street inside by re-claiming the walls for themselves, and a tipping point for what has become an international art world phenomenon. The three-day public viewing session was a landmark downtown event that drew crowds in the thousands, with people waiting up to five hours to get inside.

With an Introduction by Shepard Fairey, an Afterword by JR, and an essay from Randy Kennedy of The New York Times, Eleven Spring captures an important moment in Street Art's history. All the works that were created for the show were subsequently covered up or destroyed by renovation. Eleven Spring allows these vibrant works to live again, ready for a new generation of admirers to enjoy and celebrate."

"Artists covered the interior walls with their latest, most ambitious efforts, transforming a casual auld-lang-syne get-together into a state-of-the-art statement that ranged from classic tagging to new adventures in papering, printing, varnishing, installation and, in one impressive instance, crayon. There were lines around the block."
-- Roberta Smith, The New York Times

From Lewis Miller, the celebrated floral designer and Flower Bandit himself, an intimate and joyous behind-the-scenes look at his signature Flower Flashes as they introduced bright moments of natural beauty into the city when they were needed most.

Before dawn one morning in October 2016, renowned New York-based floral designer Lewis Miller stealthily arranged hundreds of brightly colored dahlias, carnations, and mums into a psychedelic halo around the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. The spontaneous floral installation was Miller's gift to the city -- an effort to spark joy during a difficult time. Nearly five years and more than ninety Flower Flashes later, these elaborate flower bombs -- bursts of jubilant blooms in trash cans, over bus canopies, on construction sites and traffic medians -- have brought moments of delight and wonder to countless New Yorkers and flower lovers everywhere, and earned Miller a following of dedicated fans and the nickname the Flower Bandit.

After New York City entered lockdown, Miller doubled down, creating Flower Flashes outside hospitals to express gratitude to frontline health workers and throughout the city to raise spirits. This gorgeous and poignant visual diary traces the phenomenon from the first, spontaneous Flower Flash to the even more profound installations of the pandemic through a kaleidoscopic collage of photos documenting the Flower Flashes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, Miller's inspiration material, fan contributions, and more.

About the Author:

Lewis Miller was born and raised in California farm country amid olive, almond, and peach orchards, and developed a respect for nature early on. At eighteen, he moved to Seattle where he studied horticulture and landscape design, and after seven years of successfully pursuing his interests in design, flowers, and event planning, Miller moved to New York, where he worked for one of the city's top floral boutiques. In March of 2002, Miller's vision of a country life in a metropolitan setting inspired him to create Lewis Miller Design. Since striking out on his own, Miller has created stunning floral designs for the Met, the Whitney, Tiffany, Ferragamo, Versace, Viktor Rolf, and Bergdorf Goodman. In 2016, Miller invented the Flower Flash -- a guerilla flower installation -- and has created more than 90 since.

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Пролистать книгу Flower Flash

Найглибший та найповніший огляд життя та кар'єри одного з першопрохідців покоління графіті.

Сформувавши свій графічний стиль, малюючи підземні переходи в Нью-Йорку наприкінці 1970-х років, Футура був серед перших графіті-художників, чиї роботи були представлені в сучасних галереях на початку 1980-х років, де його картини ділили простір з роботами Кіта Харінга, Жана-Мішеля Баскія та Кенні Шарфа. Оскільки комерціалізація вуличної культури в 1990-х роках надихала на співпрацю з модними та лайфстайл-брендами, роботи Футури рухалися до більш вишуканого вираження його абстрактного стилю графіті. Замовлення від брендів, що визначали епоху, таких як A Bathing Ape, Stüssy, Supreme та Mo' Wax, призвели до того, що його роботи були канонізовані як елементарний компонент вуличної естетики.

Тут, серед ніколи раніше не публікованих репродукцій ранніх картин та малюнків, зібрано архів особистих фотографій та ефемерних матеріалів, який показує, наскільки невід'ємною частиною Футури був в еволюції вуличного мистецтва та культури. Прокладена через понад сорок років роботи та інтерв'ю з ключовими гравцями кар'єри Футури, ця книга є одночасно вичерпною монографією легенди сучасного мистецтва та незамінним розділом в історії графіті.

Про автора:

Футура — вуличний художник, який народився та виріс у Нью-Йорку. Його кар'єра розпочалася в 1970-х роках під назвою Futura 2000; за десятиліття, що минули, його творчість розширилася від вагонів метро до образотворчого мистецтва та комерційної співпраці з такими брендами, як Nike, Supreme, Undercover та Virgil Abloh. Він живе та працює в Брукліні, Нью-Йорк.

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Погортати книгу Futura: The Artist's Monograph

The definitive book on High Line art, the public art program on the High Line, one of the most popular destinations in New York City. High Art surveys the first five years of art on the High Line, the unique elevated park in New York City created through the repurposing of an abandoned railway line. Since 2009, when the High Line was opened to the public, nineteen million visitors have been witness to more than 100 public art projects animating the grounds of this unique "park in the sky." The works include sculpture, installation, billboards, video, performance, and sound works by a range of artists, from established figures such as John Baldessari, El Anatsui, Maurizio Cattelan, Gilbert & George, and Ed Ruscha, to critically acclaimed mid-career artists such as Carol Bove, Sarah Sze, and Mark Grotjahn. The High Line is steadily broadening the audience for contemporary art while pushing the boundaries of traditional public art programs. This beautifully illustrated volume features the High Line’s diverse projects thematically, including full-color images and short texts on the various projects, along with an introduction by curator Cecilia Alemani; an essay on the High Line’s effect on Chelsea, the neighborhood cultural hub where it is located; and a roundtable discussion about public art today.

About the Author:

Cecilia Alemani is the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator and director of High Line art in New York

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Пролистать книгу High Art: Public Art on the High Line на сайте издательства.