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Graffiti World/Graffiti Women Two-Pack

A special two-book set exclusively available to Amazon.com customers: the bestselling book on the fascinating world of graffiti art, and its new companion volume dedicated to the most talented female graffiti artists from around the world.

Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, Graffiti World is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published. Today's young graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums—including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk—as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world. Great fun for graffiti and pop-culture buffs, the book is also an essential reference work for anyone involved in the visual arts today.

From the author of the enormously successful Graffiti World comes this spectacular follow-up celebrating the contributions of women to contemporary graffiti and street art, Graffiti Women.

Female writers have always been in the forefront of the graffiti movement, though often shunted to the sidelines by their male counterparts. This exhaustive volume places them front and center, featuring 1,000 full-color illustrations from some of the world's most prominent artists, including Brazil's Nina, Japan's Sasu, Mexico's Peste, and the Americans Lady Pink, Swoon, and Miss 17. Two eight-page fold-out collages, a fold-out poster jacket, and an authoritative text round out the impressive package. The first and only comprehensive survey of its kind, Graffiti Women is sure to attract and expand upon the wide and enthusiastic readership that made Graffiti World such a runaway success.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780810988323
  • Release date
  • 2006