Summary: Before street art became mainstream, the anonymous outlaws of "freight writing" put graffiti on the map. One of the most extreme and risky iterations of the art form, freight train graffiti culture has a rich history, laden with myth-like artists, remarkable romances, and competitive graffiti crews. Delving into the underground subculture reveals the deep connection between graffiti and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skira Rizzoli 2011

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Summary: Crisscrossing the gritty and majestic urban landscape of ₁70s Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan to a score of city noise, jazz, and gospel, Stations is an impressionistic portrait of and a tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film captures the height of the graffiti movement, showcasing images of subway cars tagged by legends...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2015

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Banksy.

Summary: "This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism, Banksy's work is now venerated, collected, and preserved. Over the course of a decade, Martin Bull has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2015

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Summary: This book brings together some of the very best pieces of art from all corners of the world that have been inspired by Banksy, as well as featuring some of his own innovative, profound and controversial work.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The true story of one misguided art collector's attempts to save a painting by the world's most infamous street artist from destruction and the auction block. A rare look inside the secretive world of graffiti and street art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Gastman, Roger.

Contents: The American railroad : right-of-way, the development of the freight train system -- From vandalism to art : writing, how graffiti became a culture -- Freight pioneers : American-made, from subways to freight trains -- Creating a movement : rolling stock, connected by rails -- With the force of a freight train : rolling thunder, the return of the train piece -- The new rail fans : highballing,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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Banksy.

Summary: From the Publisher: Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Century 2006

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Summary: For decades, mysterious messages in the form of colorful 'tiles' have appeared, pasted on the streets of major cities up and down the western hemisphere. Containing the same bizarre, unsettling message, which seems to concern resurrecting the world's dead, most people walk over them without a thought, until now. Justin Duerr, long obsessed with the tiles, has begun a quest to unearth both their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2012

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Garrett, Bradley L.

Summary: "It is assumed that the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us - the cities we live in - that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale high above the metropolis upon unfinished skyscrapers? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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Gastman, Roger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mark Batty 2007

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebellion 2007

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Sutherland, Peter

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerHouse Books 2004

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Camerota, Remo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mark Batty 2008

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Schacter, Rafael

Summary: Organized geographically by country and city, more than 100 of today's most important street artists (including Espo in New York, Shepard Fairey in Los Angeles, Os Gêmeos in Brazil, and Anthony Lister in Australia) are profiled alongside key examples of their work. The evolution of street art and graffiti within each region is also chronicled, providing essential historical context.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2013

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Summary: An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010

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Summary: In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2010

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Grody, Steve.

Summary: Long before graffiti was adopted as the visual expression of hip-hop culture in the 1980s, Chicano gang members in East Los Angeles had been developing stylized calligraphy and writing on walls. Cholo (gangster) scripts became the first distinctive letter forms to evolve in the modern vernacular tradition of graffiti writing. Today Los Angeles writers of diverse backgrounds draw from a unique...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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Summary: A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and breakdancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Art Films 2004

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Kuittinen, Riikka

Summary: One of the richest movements in street art has been the development of an alternative, crafts-based, three-dimensional movement, broadly identified as Street Craft. This new generation of artists is creating uncommissioned, site-specific works employing a range of art and craft techniques, including weaving, crocheting, sculpting, painting, gardening, light installation, and more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2015

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Osgood, Charles.

Summary: Draws together humor from World War II, including humor pieces from "Stars and Stripes," classic lines from "Mister Roberts," excerpts from memoirs, essays, and classic graffiti.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001

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