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Friday, March 30, 2012

Blog 2 - DSDN 171


Single author book

Lewisohn, C. (2008). Street art: The graffiti revolution. London: Tate.

The book Street art: The graffiti revolution explores and explains the differences between two forms of art with how text based graffiti appeals to a certain crowed where street art is more dedicated to a wide range of people. It is a book with more about the different forms of graffiti art and street art then others that have more pictures and less information.



Journal article

Sims, J. (2008). Street art comes indoors. Street art comes indoors, 1(1).

This journal article is about how graffiti and street art is making it into museums and copies are being sold to the public. Artist names are being known and prices for certain pieces are selling for a great deal of money. He explains how celebrities such as Brad Pitt have noticed graffiti art, buying into their own taste of it.



Edited book

Deitch, J. , Gastman, R. , & Rose, A. (2011). Art in the streets. New York, NY: Skira Rizzol.

The edited book is about how the authors displayed street art movements in the museum Contemp art Los Angeles and the link between hip hop music and graffiti and street art in Bronx and skateboarding in Southern California.



Website

Guetta, T. (n.d). Amusement art. Retrieved from Http://www.Mrbrainwash.com

This website is about a French street artist Thierry Guetta who got hooked into the love of street art. He first began filming street artists such as Invader, Shepard fairey and Banksy but now makes his own prints and sells his own work to the public. He also still remains weatpasting and doing stencil art around where he lives in Los Angeles.


Image


Banksy. (2011). If graffiti changed anything it would be illegal. [Stencil art/ photography]. Received from http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/index1.html

This image showing stencil art graffiti was taken in London, 2011. The famous graffiti artist Banksy catches the public's attention once again with a message displaying what he thinks.

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