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The Beautiful Walls Photographic Elevations Of Street Art Inlos Angeles Berlin And Paris
Larry Yust

$55.95 – Hardcover book / Washington Univ Pr

This companion volume to filmmaker/photographer Yust's exhibition Street Art at UCLA's Fowler Museum highlights "the aesthetics of defacement": graffiti; poster-covered fences; tagged signage, buses, and railroad tracks.... Buy or find out more 


Walls And Frames Fine Art From The Streets
Maximiliano Ruiz

$95.00 – Hardcover book /

Street art has firmly established itself as a facet and attitude in the landscape

of contemporary art. Today, young artists are going beyond their work on the streets to present their innovative styles in galleries. They... Buy or find out more 



Banksy Myths And Legends

$14.95 – Paperback book / Gingko Press

No single living artist has created as many myths, rumors and legends as Banksy. In his home town of Bristol almost everyone seems to have a Banksy story. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol and some are from... Buy or find out more 


Graffiti And Street Art
Anna Waclawek

$19.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

This concise and accessible survey, the latest title in Thames & Hudson’s renowned World of Art series, is set to become the definitive popular guide to graffiti and street art. The traditional letter-based graffiti ... Buy or find out more 



Graffiti 365
J. Edlin and A. Witten

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

An international survey of the most popular and influential graffiti and street artists

"Graffiti 365 "delivers the first real insider's view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their anteced... Buy or find out more 


Art In The Streets
Museum Of Contemporary Art LA

$55.00 – Paperback book / Rizzoli

The catalogue for the exhibition at MoCA LA - the first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graf... Buy or find out more 



Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne
J Smallman & C Nyman

$12.95 – Paperback book / Mark Batty Publisher

Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne, MBP’s first street-art book, stands as a contemporary classic of the genre. During the first few years of this century, Melbourne, Australia, was the global epicenter of stencil graff... Buy or find out more 


Graffiti Japan
Remo Camerota

$29.95 – Paperback book / Mark Batty Publisher

Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as with cinema and baseball. But the fanatical embrace with which Japanese artists have welcomed graffiti has made for a street-ar... Buy or find out more 



Abstract Graffiti
Cedar Lewisohn

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Merrell Publishers

Since the early days of the graffiti movement in late 1970s New York, street art has transformed cities around the world. Today it is a hugely popular, yet still highly controversial art form. In Abstract Graffiti, Cedar... Buy or find out more 


Art Of Rebellion 3
Christian Hundertmark

$41.95 – Paperback book / Gingko Press

Since the publication of The Art of Rebellion #1 in 2002, the street art genre has exploded into the mainstream. The author, Christian Hundertmark, also known as artist C100, has been inside the scene since day one, whic... Buy or find out more 



Street Art Contemporary Prints
Riikka Kuittinen

$35.00 – Paperback book / V & A Publications

A fascinating and varied survey of contemporary street art prints and stencil graffiti art.

Graffiti has evolved into a rich and democratic form of visual expression that is now most often labelled 'street art'. As it ma... Buy or find out more 


World Piecebook Global Graffiti Drawings
Jenkins & Villorente

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Graffiti goes global in this third volume of never–before–published blackbook drawings from writers around the world. Like the hugely successful volumes it follows, this latest collection mimics that most valuable of gra... Buy or find out more 



Underground Graffiti Sketchbook
Echo

$19.95 – Hardcover book / Ilex

The heyday of London Underground graffiti began in the mid-1980s, which saw an explosion of hip hop culture across the UK. The subway art of American graffiti artists and the release of U.S. hip hop had fired the imagina... Buy or find out more 


 

Everfresh: Blackbook: The Studio & Streets 2004–2010
The Everfresh Studio

$40.00$15.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

The Everfresh studio is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collabo... Buy or find out more 



History Of American Graffiti
Roger Gastman

$79.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins

"The History of American Graffiti is the first truly comprehensive history of graffiti's secretive, illegal culture. If there were a college course on graffiti, this would be its textbook." -Shepard Fairey, artist Shepar... Buy or find out more 


Graffiti World New Edition
Nicholas Ganz

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Presents artworks organized by continent, then alphabetically by the 180 artists featured, giving short histories and information on the main ideas of the works. Buy or find out more 



Saber Mad Society
Caleb Neelon

$55.95 – Hardcover book / Gingko Press

Los Angeles based graffiti legend SABER, is world renowned for his "Los Angeles River" piece (1997), the largest in the world. His piece on the sloping bank of the Los Angeles River was nearly the size of a football fiel... Buy or find out more 


Graffiti Asia
Rarekwai Studio

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Laurence King

This book is the first to examine the spread of graffiti in Asia, concentrating mainly on Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the Philippines, China and Hong Kong.

Interviews with... Buy or find out more 



Graffiti From A to Z
Christian Campos

$19.95 – Paperback book / Booqs

A comprehensive visual journey through all the styles and trends of modern urban art. 500 colour photographs show street art masterpieces in dozens of cities around the world in many different styles: realistic, 3D, wild... Buy or find out more 


Street/Studio: The Place of Street Art in Melbourne
Alison Young, Miso, Ghostpatrol and Timba Smits

$59.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

In this amazing new illustrated book and through a series of intimate conversations, Street/Studio offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how street art has entered the mainstream and become one of the most collec... Buy or find out more 



Piecebook Reloaded: Rare Graffiti Drawings 1985-2005
Sacha Jenkins, David Villorente

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Continuing the story which began with the groundbreaking Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers, Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente bring us never-before-published blackbook drawings from the years 1985 to 20... Buy or find out more 


Name Tagging
Martha Cooper

$18.95 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher

In Name Tagging, graffiti photography legend Martha Cooper presents a dizzying array of “Hello My Name Is” stickers adorned with tags, the origin of graffiti and today’s street art cultures. Interviews with ZEPHYR, COST,... Buy or find out more 



Graffiti New York
Eric Felisbret

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. Thi... Buy or find out more 


Untitled. II: The Beautiful Renaissance
Gary Shove

$41.95 – Paperback book / Gingko Press

Brilliant successor to the first edition Untitled – Street Art in the Counter Culture, this book about street art has again been created without the collaboration of the artists and certainly without the ‘permission’ of ... Buy or find out more 



Street Art Cookbook: A Guide To Techniques And Materials

$50.95 – Hardcover book / Dokument

Tricks of the street-art trade, a complete DIYbible of street art, materials and techniques.

Hundreds of pictures and illustrations and a dozen interviews with some of the world's most famous artists show how street art ... Buy or find out more 


Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca
Louis E.V. Nevaer & Elaine Sendyk

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher

On October 27, 2006, when Mexican police opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the city of Oaxaca, killing three people, including American journalist Brad Roland Will, the world became aware of a social conflict that ... Buy or find out more 



Guerilla Art (with DVD)
Sebastian Peiter (Ed), Goetz Werner (text)

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Laurence King

International street artists are currently conquering the art market, with auction houses, collectors, and galleries demanding top prices for their work.

This book and DVD package features interviews with key artists inc... Buy or find out more 


Stickerbomb 2
Rarekwai Studio

$31.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King

This all new follow on the from original Stickerbomb book, is filled with a brand new collection of more than 280 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, many ... Buy or find out more 



Sticker Bomb
Rarekwai Studio

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Laurence King Publishing

Stickerbomb is the first collectable fully-peelable sticker book featuring illustration graffiti and graphics. It is filled with an amazing collection of over 250 specially commissioned stickers by artists illustrators a... Buy or find out more 


Faith Of Graffiti
Norman Mailer

$27.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

"The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the place, the time, and the writings of those of us who made it happen." —Snake I

In 1973, author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar to produce ... Buy or find out more 



 

Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983–93
Duro Cubrilo, Martin Harvey and Karl Stamer

$64.99$0.00 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press

A quarter of a century ago, the New York City hip-hop phenomenon left its mark on Australian walls-a graffiti-writing culture was born.

In a barrage of blinding colour, cryptic words and bombed out train carriages, Kings... Buy or find out more 


Street Art San Francisco
Jacoby Annice

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

With 600 stunning photographs, this comprehensive book showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Beginning in the early 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combi...


Graffiti Kings New York Transit Art Of The 1970 S
Jack Stewart

$59.95 – Hardcover book /

Graffiti Kingsis the definitive book on New York's subway graffiti movement, an unprecedented creative explosion that occurred across the five boroughs during the 1970s. This rare, firsthand account of the birth of this...

Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition
Martha Copper & Henry Chalfant

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the imagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking book documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New Yo... Buy or find out more 



Mexico Stencil Propa

$40.00 – Paperback book / Actar

This is the first book ever published on urban political art in Mexico. Its iconographic content is enriched by the experiences of individual creators of urban art. Unique both for its visual richness and its historical ... Buy or find out more 


Street Sketchbook
Tristan Manco

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

With interest in graffiti and street art at a record high, the time is ripe for the first-ever volume to reveal the working methods and private fixations of more than 60 leading international street artists through their... Buy or find out more 



 

Uncommissioned Art: An A–Z of Australian Graffiti
Christine Dew

$35.00$16.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

On the streets of Australian cities there are conversations occurring in paint in public space. Graffiti, stencil and street art are increasingly gaining currency as a potent artform worldwide. In addition to its artisti... Buy or find out more 


Graffiti Paris
Fabienne Grevy

$19.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

As much as London, New York and Los Angeles, Paris has been hijacked by street artists who have transformed public spaces into giant showrooms with their posters, stickers, silk-screens, paintings, mosaics, murals, stenc... Buy or find out more 



Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution
Cedar Lewisohn

$0.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Street Art - art made in public spaces and including graffiti, stickers, poster art, stencil art and wheat-pasting, but not corporate-sponsored advertising or "public art" - has become one of the most popular and hotly d... Buy or find out more 


Street Art Chile
Rod Palmer

$45.00 – Paperback book /

Chile has long been a centre for radical propaganda painting. As early as 1940 leading Mexican and Chilean artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros, Fernando Marcos and Gregorio de la Fuente, were painting murals in Chi... Buy or find out more 



Graffiti Woman
Nicholas Ganz

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Female graffiti artists are increasingly making their mark on what has until now been a male-dominated sphere. Nicholas Ganz documents this phenomenon fully in this sequel to his international bestseller, Graffiti World.... Buy or find out more 


Piecebook Secret Drawings Of Graffiti Writers
Sacha Jenkins

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Before it hits the wall, graffiti is often planned out in a black book????????????a common artist's sketchbook sometimes called a piece book????????????piece being short for masterpiece. Wellworn and dog-eared, these boo... Buy or find out more 



Wall And Piece
Banksy

$39.95 – Paperback book / Century

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except may be when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum.... Buy or find out more 


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