У цій книзі представлено багатство, різноманітність і силу творчості найвідомішого художника стріт-арту в світі... але ніхто не знає його особи. Нам пропонується прослідкувати еволюцію художника від Англії до Сполучених Штатів, Франції, Ізраїлю та України, а також через понад сотню емблематичних робіт, усі пояснені. Це оригінальний каталог Raisonné Музею Бенксі, у якому всі ці твори відтворено в їхньому міському контексті, що дозволяє широкій публіці реалістично відкрити їх і зрозуміти їхню силу, включно з тими, які були вкрадені чи зіпсовані та більше не існують.

У комплекті: останні роботи Бенксі в Україні

Про автора

Хазіс Вардар, власник і продюсер театрів (зокрема, The Palace Nightclub у Парижі), є засновником музеїв Бенксі (у Парижі, Брюсселі, Барселоні, Празі, Мілані та Дубаї).

Banksy народився в Брістолі, Велика Британія, приблизно в 1974 році. Він став ключовою фігурою у світі вуличного мистецтва в середині 1990-х років завдяки своєму провокаційному та унікальному стилю. Сьогодні він наймодніший вуличний художник світу.

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.

Найширший та найактуальніший том про загадкового та суперечливого графіті-художника, цей глибоко досліджений та дуже особистий триб'ют досліджує, як Бенксі продовжує кидати виклик загальноприйнятій думці про мистецький успіх, стаючи лише більш відомим та могутнім, навіть дотримуючись своєї анти-істеблішментської платформи та своєї місії дати голос тим, хто не має голосу.

Супроводжуваний приголомшливими повнокольоровими репродукціями та фотографіями робіт на всю сторінку, включаючи багато з тих, що були втрачені часом, фотограф та експерт вуличного мистецтва Алессандра Маттанза у своєму захопленому та обґрунтованому тексті відстежує кар'єрний шлях Бенксі від творця трафаретів з посланнями на міських стінах Лондона до затребуваного захисника прав людини та довкілля. Вона досліджує багато ключових образів, що населяють творчість Бенксі — тварин, дітей, історичних постатей, повітряних кульок, персонажів мультфільмів, поліцейських та інших. Вона показує, як творчість Бенксі вийшла за межі графіті та трафаретного малювання, і як його мистецтво допомогло підтримати його активізм у різних справах — від закликів до миру на Близькому Сході до збереження природного середовища. Читачі отримають нове розуміння того, як Бенксі допоміг перетворити незаконний акт кримінального пошкодження на високу форму мистецтва, і як, висміюючи інституціоналізоване мистецтво, він досяг величезної слави в цих самих інституціях.

Про автора:

Алессандра Маттанза — іноземний кореспондент, дописувач і редактор кількох видавництв в Італії та Німеччині. Її попередні книги — Street Art: Famous Artists Talk About Their Vision, Women Street Artists and Banksy

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For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous.

From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for six-figure sums and hangs on celebrities’ walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today?

In the first attempt to tell the full story of Banksy’s life and career, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question ‘Who is Banksy?’ is as much about his career as it is ‘the man behind the wall’.

About the Author:

 Will Ellsworth-Jones was chief reporter and then New York correspondent for the Sunday Times as well as holding senior editorial positions at the Telegraph Magazine, The Independent Magazine and Saga Magazine. His other books include a history of conscientious objectors in the First World War, We Will Not Fight. He lives in London.

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The largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic yet highly sought-after artist, including iconic works, installation objects, ephemera, and memorabilia all in one volume.

Banksy is the world’s most discussed artist of recent decades, and this seminal collection features hundreds of works including Girl with Balloon, Pulp Fiction, Love Is in the Air, Barcode, and Monkey Queen. It also includes scores of paintings, serigraphs, stencils, and installation objects as well as a selection of memorabilia — many of which have never been published previously. Created with the cooperation of Pest Control, the group that manages all things Banksy, this is as official and authorized as any Banksy publication could be.

Banksy is the world’s greatest practitioner of street art. His work has always been political, involving pointed critiques of inequality, injustice, consumerism, and the establishment, yet no one knows his identity. He is an exemplary case of fame and notoriety built upon absence and anonymity. His relationship with the art market is also complex: marked by mocking hostility while being one of the most marketable and most collected contemporary artists.

About the Authors:

Stefano Antonelli curated Europe’s first major Banksy exhibition at the Fondazione Roma Museo. He also collaborates with institutions such as Luiss Guido Carli, La Sapienza, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (MACRO), and PAC in Milan. Gianluca Marziani is a curator of contemporary art shows that have appeared at the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, and the 2011 Venice Biennale.

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In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic and controversial artist of modern times.

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous.

]This fully updated and illustrated story of Banksy’s life and career builds an intriguing picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question ‘Who is Banksy?’ is as much about his career as it is ‘the man behind the wall’.

From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for seven-figure sums and hangs on celebrities’ walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more, National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today?

This book charts Banksy's journey from the graffiti-scrawled streets of Barton Hill, the working-class neighbourhood of Bristol where he and others covered the walls with vibrant pieces while trying to avoid the police, through to some of the most prestigious galleries of the world, where his daring acts of guerilla art have forced us to reconsider how we define as art.

From the artist's own words to recollections of friends and colleagues, this book also examines the contradictions of Banksy's life: charting how a privately educated boy from a middle-class area of Bristol reinvented himself as a rogue and an outlaw who would take the art world by storm.

With beautiful reproductions of some of his most controversial and recognisable works, this detailed study is a truly indispensable guide to understanding the ultimate art rebel whose work is no less relevant today than it was when he first started out some thirty years ago.

About the Author:

 Will Ellsworth-Jones was chief reporter and then New York correspondent for the Sunday Times as well as holding senior editorial positions at the Telegraph Magazine, The Independent Magazine and Saga Magazine. His other books include a history of conscientious objectors in the First World War, We Will Not Fight. He lives in London.

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- 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.

A new take on the history of art as parodied, reinterpreted and ultimately reinforced by the international phenomenon that is Banksy.

Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also one of the most perceptive art historians of our age might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable works the street artist has created over the course of the past thirty years, since his emergence in the Bristol underground scene in the early 1990s, constitute an audacious commentary on the history of image-making – a captivating critique waiting to be pieced together.

Armed with little more than stencils, spray paint and an anonymizing cloak of after-hours darkness, Banksy has forged an alluring identity for himself as an incorrigible prankster who doesn’t embrace tradition, but shreds it. Consider Banksy and you think of grubby city walls far removed from elite galleries and privileged museums where art is conventionally shown. What actually illuminates Banksy’s audacious murals, impromptu urban sculptures and vandalized paintings, however, is a profound understanding of the story of art. He wields this secret knowledge like a weapon against our senses.

Through the dark satirical lens of Banksy’s mischievous reimagined masterpieces, art history is viewed afresh and brought into unexpected focus. From his droll lampooning of the Lascaux cave paintings to his reinvention of Monet’s enchanting water-lily pond, a reboot of Géricault’s tragic gut-wrenching vision to Vermeer's girl now instilled with street cred, everyone’s genius is grist for his unmerciful mill. Far from being diminished in their significance, however, the works that Banksy ruthlessly parodies are ultimately refurbished by the ordeal. Banksy’s iconoclastic works force us to rethink our affection for, and appreciation of, great works of art that define cultural history.

About the Author:

Kelly Grovier is a columnist and feature writer for BBC Culture and his writings on art have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Independent, The Sunday Times, the Observer, RA Magazine and Wired. He is the author of several books, including A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works (2018), On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully (2021) and The Art of Colour (2023), published by Thames & Hudson. He is co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.

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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What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke’s drawings of insects, George Stubbs’s studies of horses and Damien Hirst’s pickled shark? In this new and spirited account of British art, Jonathan Jones argues for empiricism. From the Enlightenment to the present, British artists have shared a passion for looking hard at the world around them. Jones shows how this zeal for precision and careful observation paved the way for Realism, Impressionism and the birth of modern art.

This essential art book is a must-read for fans of Gombrich’s The Story of Art and the perfect introduction to British art history.   

About the Author:

Jonathan Jones is the art critic for The Guardian newspaper. He was on the jury for the 2009 Turner Prize and is the author of The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance and The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance.

“Sensations presents a radically new story of British art. It connects the artists of today with British culture more than three hundred years ago as it finds an unexpected thread that links William Hogarth and Tracey Emin, Thomas Gainsborough and Lucian Freud. What they share is an eye for the real world. I hope this book will change how you see Britain, and its art.” – Jonathan Jones

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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Catalogue to a major travelling exhibition focused on Banksy, the world’s most popular graffiti artist whose real identity remains unknown despite his domination of the global street art scene for over twenty-five years.

This accessible volume devoted to the enigmatic artist known as Banksy showcases pivotal works from private collections grouped to reveal Banksy’s key reference points and creative drives. The show features more than 100 original iconic works — always topical and certainly never dull — including Girl with Balloon, Gangsta Rat, Monkey Queen, along with lesser-known examples in other media such as “Banksy of England” banknotes, satiric CD covers, posters, and rare T-shirt designs. Laced with caustic and critical messages, Banksy’s works examine capitalism, consumerism, war, social control, freedom, and other features of our time with groundbreaking freshness and immediacy. Insightful essays explore such topics as Banksy’s philosophy, relationship to the art market, and choice to remain incognito. Banksy’s paintings, sculptures, prints, infographic cladograms, and tube maps are accompanied by detailed contextual analysis and a time line with highlights of Banksy’s career.

About the Authors:

Stefano Antonelli, an adjunct professor of art at Roma Tre University, curated Europe’s first major Banksy exhibition at the Fondazione Roma Museo. Gianluca Marziani is a curator whose shows have appeared at the Venice Biennale and Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto.

New, expanded, 2020 Edition.

The single best collection of photography of Banksy’s street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn’t enough there are some words too.

You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire street art career, spanning the late '90s right up to the ‘Seasons Greetings’ Christmas 2018 piece in Port Talbot, Wales.

This new edition includes his self-destructing ‘Love is in the Bin’ intervention, which according to Sotheby's is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." The groundbreaking ‘Dismaland’ show, his Paris ’68 revisited works, The Walled Off Hotel, Brexit, Cans Festival, Brooklyn and Basquiat, as well as new works from Gaza and New York.

Also featuring the controversial ‘Cheltenham Spies’ as well as ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, ‘Art Buff’ and the spectacular ‘Mobile Lovers’ which appeared outside Bristol Boys Boxing Club. 248 pages featuring his greatest works of art in context.

Photographer Ray Mock takes you along on his exciting hunt for new Banksy work during the famous “Better Out Than In” project in his new book Banksy in New York.

This personal narrative offers a day-by-day account of Banksy’s first New York residency, chronicling works that include “Sirens of the Lambs” and the Central Park stand at which original works by Banksy were sold for only $60. Mock’s work captures not only Banksy’s artwork but the reactions of the public and media frenzies that often accompanied it, giving fans a direct window into the frenetic scavenger hunt that took over New York City in October 2013.

Banksy in New York offers a closer look at Banksy’s witty and irreverent art and the varied responses it received while lending insight into the artist’s sharp social commentary. This book is a must-have for those new to the scene and Banksy fanatics alike.

Бэнкси уже давно стал культовой фигурой в среде граффитистов, хотя его настоящее имя до сих пор остается загадкой. Первая иллюстрированная биография на русском языке знакомит читателя с работами скандально известного английского андерграундного художника. Рисунки и фотографии сопровождаются автобиографическими анекдотами, афоризмами и практическими указаниями по рисованию граффити по трафаретам.