Author: Alan Ket
Publisher: Michael O’Mara
Keywords: graffiti, world, planet
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1843172801
ISBN-13: 9781843172802
Graffiti or "street art" has been a significant art form for more than 20 years, altering and shaping the urban landscape from Tokyo to Paris, Los Angeles to Sydney, Belfast to Berlin. Ever-changing and evolving, its anonymous, transient nature means it literally can appear one day and disappear the next. Yet out of this shifting mass of spray paint, some true stars have emerged—artists such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Banksy—as well as countless unsung heroes who have taken the form to new heights. This book is a celebration of the endless creativity of the medium, featurin
Author: Sandrine Pereira
Publisher: Silverback Books / Fitway Publishing
Keywords: graffiti
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2005-05-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 2752801815
ISBN-13: 9782752801814
For the longest time a virtually underground activity, graffiti has finally received its backstage pass to a number of the world’s top museums and galleries. Along the way, it has spawned tremendously creative artists who have developed their own distinctive tagging styles, elevating graffiti to a recognized art form. The examples found in this book have been photographed by immensely gifted and fanatical graffiti artists with text by live wire journalist Sandrine Pereira.
Author: Lee Barnard
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Keywords: graffiti, investigating, understanding
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-10-26
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1598006428
ISBN-13: 9781598006421
How did Graffiti get started? What do those words say and what’s their meaning? How do you locate the vandals if they’re not caught in the act? Once they are caught what happens? Why do they tag? These are all questions that will be answered when you read Understanding and Investigating Graffiti.
Author: W. W. Story
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: italia, graffiti
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $34.75
ISBN-10: 1113741880
ISBN-13: 9781113741882
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEONARDO DA VINCI POETISES THE DUKE IN HIS OWN DEFENCE. Padre Bandelli, then, complains of me Because, forsooth, I have not drawn a line Upon the Saviour’s head; perhaps, then, he Could without trouble paint that head divine. But think, oh Signor Duca, what should be The pure perfection of our Saviour’s face— What sorrowing majesty, what noble grace, At that dread moment when He brake the br
Author: Kelly Parra
Publisher: MTV
Keywords: girl, graffiti
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 141653461X
ISBN-13: 9781416534617
Graffiti art. It’s bold. It’s thrilling. And it can get a girl into serious trouble....Raised by her single mom (who’s always dating the wrong kind of man) in a struggling California neighborhood, Angel Rodriguez is a headstrong, independent young woman who channels her hopes and dreams for the future into her painting. But when her entry for a community mural doesn’t rate, she’s heartbroken. Even with winning artist Nathan Ramos -- a senior track star and Angel’s secret crush -- taking a sudden interest in Angel and her art, she’s angry and hurt. She&
Author: Tod Lange
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Keywords: graffiti, subway, york, new
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0764333399
ISBN-13: 9780764333392
Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers;" of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s transit system "graveyards," including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented "underdogs." The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the w
Author: Jane Bingham
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: action, culture, graffiti
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1410934187
ISBN-13: 9781410934185
Designed to reinforce literacy skills and arts knowledge with easy to follow activities.
