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The University of Chicago Press Conflict Graffiti
Book SynopsisThis study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflictimportant tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to create a sense of danger or lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. But it is also a resistive tool of protest, making visible the disparate voices and interests that come together to make a movement. In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zonesranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a newTrade Review“Conflict Graffiti strengthens our understanding of the role graffiti plays in place making and in social lives embroiled in conflict. Lennon shows that walls, and the writing on them, are formative elements of our world—they create and supersede conflict, and they represent not only human suffering but creativity and resilience. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into unknown places, movements, genres, and histories of graffiti.” * Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College *“Deeply researched and beautifully written, Conflict Graffiti reveals the ways in which street graffiti both detonates and documents global battles over public space, politics, property, and cultural belonging. Indecipherable to some, invitational to others, such graffiti provides a potent resistance to established authorities by hiding in the light of its own illicit visibility. Yet these same authorities in turn use their own forms of graffiti and street art to signal not resistance, but pacification and privilege. Attuned to such complexity, Conflict Graffiti brilliantly theorizes graffiti and its place in contemporary global dynamics.” * Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University *“From Ferguson to Palestine, this elegantly crafted and vividly detailed text takes graffiti, an under-theorized form of political action and expression, and locates it firmly in the arsenal of resistance to oppression. Closely articulated to forms of state violence and the specificity of time and place, graffiti is a ‘tool of dissent’—speaking back and speaking to—in its demands for radical change. While never losing sight of the creative and political impulse, Lennon does not mince words in his critique of the commodification and appropriation of street art.” * Julie Peteet, University of Louisville *“Conflict Graffiti is a thoughtful, comprehensive and engaging analysis of graffiti and the people who participate in this activity in the context of contemporary political conflicts throughout the world. It should be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and students for years to come.” * Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore *"As [Lennon] shows in this accessible and expertly researched monograph, graffiti has the power to educate those who take the time to read the writing on the walls. In addition to the romantic view of graffiti as artistic expression, graffiti is a window on to what the everyday inhabitants of a particular place have to say, what they think, what they desire and what they rally against, free from the pressures of profit-motivated actors and government censors... [A] much-needed lesson for a whole new audience." * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface an introduction to conflict graffiti 1. walls, streets, and public spaces 2. the messy politics of conflict graffiti: desire, graffiti, and assembling a revolution 3. erasing people and land: banksy, the separation wall, and international graffiti tourists 4. framing hurricane katrina: graffiti and the “new” new orleans 5. “for more than profit”: graffiti, street art, and the gentrification of detroit conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Taking the Train
Book SynopsisTraces the history of graffiti in New York City against the backdrop of the struggle that developed between the city and the writers.Trade ReviewAustin argues that the graffiti epidemic was really a smokescreen for poor civic management, and that graffiti itself was the inevitable result of a whole outpouring of structural social factors. New York Times Book Review Although solidly academic, this book is enlivened by its fascinating topic. Booklist A meticulous history. Booklist Austin's precise, witty, and genial style perfectly meshes with his rigorous research and analysis... This exemplary study makes important contributions to understanding contemporary art, urban sociology, and the culture wars. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Lets the graf writers talk back to the haters, while offering a nuanced reassessment of New York City's graffiti scene. Village Voice Austin does full justice simultaneously to New York as a symbolic, although never more than partially representable, city; to changes in the city's economy which create nationally unusual shifts in the relative distribution of wealth and in the ethnic make-up of poverty...ranges widely and with rich detail, yet always anchored in the central narrative focus. Urban StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Taking the Trains: The Formation and Structure of "Writing Culture" in the Early 1970s 3. Writing "Graffiti" in the Public Sphere: The Construction of Writing as an Urban Problem 4. Repainting the Trains: The New York School of the 1970s 5. The State of the Subways: The Transit Crisis, the Aesthetics of Fear, and the Second "War on Graffiti" 6. Writing Histories 7. Retaking the Trains 8. The Walls and the World: Writing Culture, 1982-1990 Conclusion: A Spot on the Wall Appendix: Sources from Writers Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£29.75
MU - University of Texas Press Terry Allen
Book SynopsisThe essential retrospective of the work of acclaimed visual artist and singer-songwriter Terry Allen, with essays, including one previously unpublished, by leading cultural critic Dave Hickey and more than 200 superb illustrations.Table of Contents Introduction (2009) by Dave Hickey JUAREZ (1970-present) Born in a Trailer: Borne Forth upon the Perfect Ship (1992) by Dave Hickey RING (1976-1980) RING: "A story which swallows its own tale" (1981) by Marcia Tucker YOUTH IN ASIA (1982-1992) Terry Allen's YOUTH IN ASIA: An Interview by Dave Hickey (1991) Terry Allen's Big Witness: A Less Perfect Union (1989) by Dave Hickey Installations (1976-present) A Few People Dead (1983) by Dave Hickey Public Works and Bronzes Sculpture and Works on Paper Music (1968-present) This Ain't No Top '40s Song: The Music of Terry Allen (2009) by Michael Ventura Discography Select Music Performances and Recordings Plates Biography Select Exhibitions, Installations, and Collections Select Theater and Radio Performances and Scripts Select Catalogues and Books
£48.60
University of Washington Press Bioart and the Vitality of Media
Book SynopsisBioart, art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice. This book offers a theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.Trade Review"In this concise, clearly written work, Mitchell explores bioengineered life as an artistic medium creating flows between the sciences and the humanities. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Living Art 1. Defining Bioart: Representation and Vitality 2. The Three Eras of Vitalist Bioart 3. Bioart and the Folding of Social Space 4. Affect, Framing, and Mediacy 5. The Strange Vitality of Media 6. Bioart and the "Newness" of Media Notes Works Cited Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Bioart and the Vitality of Media
Book SynopsisBioart, art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice. This book offers a theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.Trade Review"In this concise, clearly written work, Mitchell explores bioengineered life as an artistic medium creating flows between the sciences and the humanities. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Living Art 1. Defining Bioart: Representation and Vitality 2. The Three Eras of Vitalist Bioart 3. Bioart and the Folding of Social Space 4. Affect, Framing, and Mediacy 5. The Strange Vitality of Media 6. Bioart and the "Newness" of Media Notes Works Cited Index
£33.98
Yale University Press Strange Eggs Poems and Cutouts 195658 Menil
Book SynopsisIn 1957-58, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b 1929) began making collages he has described as mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode. This title features Cleas Oldenburg's eighteen collages that were first shown in their entirety at the Menil Collection in 2012.
£28.50
University of California Press Ray Johnson Selective Inheritance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“’Selective Inheritance’ achieves the scholarly goal of unpacking Ray Johnson’s unknown-artist status by peeling away the layers of his complex work with a savvy that combines art-world knowledge and darker, psychological theories." * BLOUIN ARTINFO *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction: The Heir of Duchamp / 1 1. Johnson’s Background and Relationship to Duchamp / 12 2. A Language Fan Club / 80 3. The Viewer: Looking at Seeing / 128 4. Identity/Performance / 166 Conclusion / 203 Notes / 219 Selected Bibliography / 279 List of Illustrations / 287
£37.80
University of California Press Making Images Move Handmade Cinema and the Other
Book SynopsisMaking Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional filmmaking practices, including painting and scratching directly on the film strip; deteriorating film with water, dirt, and bleach; and applying materials such as paper and glue. This book provides a comprehensive history of this tradition of handmade cinema from the early twentieth century to the present, opening up new conversations about the production, meaning, and significance of the moving image. From painted film to kinetic art, and from psychedelic light shows to video synthesis, Gregory Zinman recovers the range of forms, tools, and intentions that make up cinema's shadow history, deepening awareness of the intersection of art and media in the twentieth century, and anticipating what is to come.Trade Review"Written with careful precision and breadth. . . chronicling a rich, 100-year history of handmade moviemaking in which artists similarly trespass into other areas of creative practice." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Gregory Zinman’s excellent new book on movies made (or remade) through the direct, often tactile engagement of artists and their filmstrips, video-feedback loops, and myriad other animated oozes and vibrant viscosities, Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts is everything one wants in this age of over-scribbling at the margins of cinema. Lucid, smart, but entirely readable, and compellingly illuminated with color illustrations of the wonders it describes." * Cinema Scope Magazine *"Devoid of zeitgeisty romanticizations of the analog, Gregory Zinman's Making Images Move presents a defiant yet clear-eyed alternative history of the origins of cinema. . . . Zinman's prose sparkles in recounting artists' use of chemicals, bodily fluids, and elements like wind and water, which often render celluloid fragile or ephemeral." * Film Comment *"Zinman’s is the book perched on our balconies. It is worth way more than two in the bush. That’s the great thing about books that are also birds. Their singleness multiplies in hands that hold them. Running fingers through their feathered figures to thread additional ones in responds to their song." * Critical Inquiry *"Zinman explores the history of camera-less filmmaking in an exciting intervention that ennobles an underdiscussed mode of film production and challenges our very conception of what constitutes a 'movie.' . . . A groundbreaking immersion into a previously uncelebrated filmmaking practice." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Rather than manifesting a site of contestation between painting, film, sculpture, or photography, Making Images Move espouses the handmade's medium-collaborative impulse through material investigations of light in time. . . . Though Zinman situates the return to craft as a response to mass digitization, the current pandemic transfigures Zinman's politics of handmade joy into something almost elegiac, as even the possibility of direct artistic experience remains untenable." * Millennium Film Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Shadow History of the Moving Image PART I. HANDMADE FILM 1. Between Canvas and Celluloid Visual Music, Motion Paintings, and Cameraless Photography 2. Abstractions in Time Painting and Scratching on Film 3. By Chemical, by Body, by Mechanism Other Handmade Methods 4. Beyond the Frame Cameraless Questions of Politics and Representation PART II. HANDMADE MOVING IMAGES 5. Light in Motion The Moving Image between the Plastic Arts and Cinema 6. Making Space, Making Time Light Art of the 1950s and 1960s 7. Forms of Radiance The Practice and Significance of the Psychedelic Light Show 8. Video Art Analog Circuit Palettes, Cathode Ray Canvases Conclusion Handmade Moving Images in the Digital Era Notes Index
£68.00
New York University Press Graffiti Lives
Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author
£70.30
New York University Press Graffiti Lives
Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author
£20.89
Texas Christian University Press Weird Yet Strange Notes from an Austin Music
Book SynopsisA collection of the music art created by Danny Garrett from the ’70s and ’80s in Austin, Texas. Describing the evolution of the Austin music poster, Garrett richly and poignantly details the history of the music, musicians, and venues that brought the surprising harmony of “the Austin sound” to a country otherwise polarized by antagonistic cultural, social, and political perspectives.
£23.36
F&W Publications Inc Shimmer Shine Workshop
Book SynopsisShimmer and Shine Workshop introduces 30+ step-by-step art tutorials for adding a little (or a lot!) of shine to your mixed-media art.
£15.99
University Press of Mississippi Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation
Book SynopsisVisual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils, and graffiti. This discovery leads him to an examination of the often-overlooked presence of African Americans, Latinos, women, and gays and lesbians who have widely impacted the worldviews and music of this subculture. Then Ensminger, the former editor of fanzine Left of the Dial, looks at how mainstream and punk media shape the public's outlook on the music's history and significance.Often derided as litter or a nuisance, punk posters have been called instant art, Xerox art, or DIY street art. For marginalized communities, they carve out spaces for resistance. Made by hand in a vernacular tradition, this art highlights deep-seated tendencies among musicians and fans. Instead of presenting punk as a predominately middle-class, white-male phenomenon, the book describes a convergence culture that mixes people, gender, and sexualities.This detailed account reveals how members conceptualize their attitudes, express their aesthetics, and talk to each other about complicated issues. Ensminger incorporates an important array of scholarship, ranging from sociology and feminism to musicology and folklore, in an accessible style. Grounded in fieldwork, Visual Vitriol includes over a dozen interviews completed over the last several years with some of the most recognized and important members of groups such as Minor Threat, The Minutemen, The Dils, Chelsea, Membranes, 999, Youth Brigade, Black Flag, Pere Ubu, the Descendents, the Buzzcocks, and others.
£31.96
University Press of Mississippi Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City
Book SynopsisHailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aerosol Kingdom explores the origins and aesthetics of graffiti writings. From a vast array of inherited traditions and gritty urban lifestyles talented and renegade young New Yorkers spawned a culture of their own, a balloon-lettered shout heralding the coming of hip-hop. Though helpless in checking its spreading appeal, city fathers immediately went on the attack and denounced it as vandalism. Many aficionados, however, recognized its trendy aesthetic immediately. By the 1980s spray-paint art hit the mainstream, and subway painters, mostly from marginal barrios of the city, became art world darlings. Their proliferating, ephemeral art was spotlighted in downtown galleries, in the media, and thereafter throughout the land. Not only did the practice of ""public signaturing"" take over New York City, but also, as the images moved through the neighborhoods on the subway cars, it also grabbed hold in the suburbs. Soon it stirred worldwide imitation and helped spark the hip-hop revolution. As the artists wielded their spray cans, they expressed their acute social consciousness. Aerosol Kingdom documents their careers and records the reflections of key figures in the movement. It examines converging forces that made aerosol art possible--the immigration of Caribbean peoples, the reinforcing presence of black American working-class styles and fashions, the effects of advertising on children, the mass marketing of spray cans, and the popular protests of the 1960s and 1970s against racism, sexism, classism, and war. The creative period of the movement lasted for over twenty years, but most of the original works have vanished. Official cleanup of public sites erased great pieces of the heyday. They exist now only in photographs, in the artists' sketchbooks, and now in Aerosol Kingdom.
£33.71
Liverpool University Press TransVisuality: The Cultural Dimension of
Book SynopsisIn a contemporary and ever-changing society, ‘the visual’ has become a dynamic element that traverse all parts of current life all over the world – what in this book series is termed transvisuality. The present book is volume 3, which attempts to study the visual as it comes about: through the dynamic involvement in all sorts of articulations. The topics are in all volumes covered by introductions bring everything together under the new theme of transvisuality: the notion of visual as a cultural practice and constant dynamic that knows no representational limits and no framings. In this volume, the visual is seen as dynamic new and nonrepresentational matter – a ‘flesh’ which is researched from the particular vantage points of design of the visual and branding of the visual. In dialogue with radical new theories of the present, non-representational theory and new materialism, design and branding are surveyed from the viewpoint of business research, design studies, cultural studies, and practice – all focused on the visual. Topics covered are fashion blogging, DIY, Junk Space, handmade signage and public spaces in New Delhi, city branding, dance festivals and youtubing, visual branding in China and Multi-Sensory Retrieval Methods.
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Street Art Tel Aviv: In a Time of Transition
Book SynopsisDistinctly unique, Tel Aviv's street art represents a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities. Echoing the uncertainty that permeates Israel's daily existence, it possesses a rawness and energy found in few modern cities. Through more than 250 images, 14 artist profiles, and comprehensive research, Street Art Tel Aviv introduces the reader to an alternative visual culture that has developed and thrived at a time when the citys building exteriors are plentiful, and living and workspaces are still available to emerging artists. At the turn of the 21st century, Tel Aviv's gritty streets, particularly those in southern industrial neighbourhoods, began to host a motley array of spectral faces, uncanny figures and curious characters. Random graffiti, from scrawls on the walls to stylized letters, made their way into largely vacant spaces. Artistic renderings of band-aids, hearts and eggplants evolved into iconic city images. Poetic expressions and musings from the personal to the collective surfaced increasingly on Tel Aviv's flat facades. And while much of what is painted directly onto the walls avoids commenting on the city's precarious political state, the stencils that continue to surface often stealthily in the dark alert us to the citys seemingly irresolvable, ever-present external and internal conflicts. Street Art Tel Aviv also gives entry into Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station, Israel's largest indoor urban art gallery. Showcasing murals in a diverse range of styles, painted directly onto its walls by local, national and international artists since 2013, it is a favourite site for street art and contemporary art enthusiasts. Herewith the opportunity to explore this vibrant city's visual landscape at a time of transition for both the city itself and for this new visual art genre.
£57.00
Reaktion Books Written on the Body: the Tattoo in American and
Book SynopsisWritten on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America from Antiquity to the present. While the subject of tattooing has previously been approached from the viewpoints of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, this is the first book to set the practice into a historical perspective. This is partly because there was no obvious context for writing a serious history of it prior to the emergence of scholarship on the cultural history of the body. The tattoo emerges as a haunting presence on Europe's margins, figuring as something alien and uncanny. It seems to hover for much of its history in a space between the cosmetic and the punitive, frequently indicative of and complicated by the practice of penal violations of bodily integrity. It is this fluidity of the tattoo's meaning, rather than its marginality, that is the focus of Written on the Body.Trade ReviewThis anthology, which is rarely scarred by academic jargon, fascinates with its detail, covering enough surface to show how much more is left to be explored. The New York Times Tattoos have a strange double-nature. They have an uncanny power to affront, yet they also exert an almost irresistible fascination, even on historians. Jane Caplan's collection of essays from 14 estimable British and American historians provides an informative exploration and interpretation of the tattoo in Western Culture. Boston Herald This eccentric and entertaining collection of essays makes a strong case for thinking that we should look more closely at human skin ... There aren't many places where Betty Boop, Wagner, and a succubus or two can be found jostling each other for space. One could be on the tatooed body. The other is in this brilliantly scholarly and scatty book. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Art Newspaper An amazingly rich volume ... Caplan's anthology of essays is stimulating for further work on the very idea of body ornamentation as a source of cultural history. -- Sander L. Gilman American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsWith essays by Clare Anderson, Susan Benson, James Bradley, Jane Caplan, Juliet Fleming, Alan Govenar, Harriet Guest, Mark Gustafson, C. P. Jones, Charles MacQuarrie, Hamish Maxwell-Stuart and Ian Duffield, Stephan Oettermann, Jennipher Allen Rosecrans and Abby M. Schrader.
£22.50
University of Westminster Press The Student Guide to the Creative Studio in the Digital Age
£75.54
Rutgers University Press The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and
Book SynopsisThe Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an accessible writing style, sociologist Dave Lane explains the complexity of tattoo work as a type of social activity. His central argument is that tattooing is a social world, where people must be socialized, manage a system of stratification, create spaces conducive for labor, develop sets of beliefs and values, struggle to retain control over their tools, and contend with changes that in turn affect their labor. Earlier research has examined tattoos and their meanings. Yet, Lane notes, prior research has focused almost exclusively on the tattoos—the outcome of an intricate social process—and have ignored the significance of tattoo workers themselves. "Tattooists," as Lane dubs them, make decisions, but they work within a social world that constrains and shapes the outcome of their labor—the tattoo. The goal of this book is to help readers understand the world of tattoo work as an intricate and nuanced form of work. Lane ultimately asks new questions about the social processes occurring prior to the tattoo’s existence. Trade Review"A compelling, in-depth look at tattoo artists and their social world as they pursue fulfilling, enchanting work in the midst of a dehumanizing capitalist system. Lane provokes fascinating questions about how artists organize spaces, navigate laws, and construct authenticity as tattoos become increasingly popular. Reading made me want to get more tattoos – and ask my artist all sorts of questions!" -- Ross Haenfler * author of Straight Edge Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change *"It takes two to tattoo–someone being tattooed and the tattooist. Their encounter has to be face-to-face, and this fact shapes how tattooists work, regardless of whether they approach their work as a craft or as high art. In this fascinating book, David Lane takes us into the many corners of the tattooists’ world, revealing how the occupation retains its traditions in the face of dramatic changes." -- Joel Best * University of Delaware *"Looking at the nature, habits, and cultural codes of professional tattooing, Lane reveals the complexity of tattooing as an art form, work world, and social process. The tattooists appear as resilient agents who resist capitalist alienation, unionization, and state-level regulations. We also see the artists as gatekeepers who maintain the class, race, and gender order of professional tattooing. A truly interesting read." -- Katherine Irwin * University of Hawai’i at Manoa *"In The Other Side of the Needle, David C. Lane provides an absorbing and accessibly written view of the tattoo world from the perspective of tattoo workers. Drawing on an art-world perspective and packed with insights from tattooists, the book explores the working lives of tattooists. It provides a much-needed and thorough treatment of this understudied area and will be of interest to scholars in the production of culture as well as to anyone interested in tattoos and tattooing. -- Victoria D. Alexander * Goldsmiths, University of London *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Figure 1.1: The Stratified World of Tattooing Figure 7.1: Authenticity of Machine Ownership List of Tables Table 4.1: State and Local Tattoo Bans Introduction: Tattooing for Beginners 1 The Social World of Tattooing 2 Organizing Space 3 Careers of Tattooists 4 Legal Consciousness among Workers 5 Ties to Conventional Institutions and Ideas 6 Sources of Contention 7 External Threats and the Maintenance of Boundaries Conclusion: Continuity and Change Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£27.20
Lars Muller Publishers Call Ampersand Response
Book SynopsisThe starting image was of a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was visually connected to the previous one. It was understood from the beginning that they had to use images that could be scanned from physical items they already had at home (no images from the Internet)—such as children’s books, personal collections of technical manuals and assorted ephemera. The call-and-response nature of the enterprise can be appreciated in the distinctive pairs of facing pages that present themselves as you go through the bound book. To reinforce their dual roles each image appears twice in the book, once as response and again as call. One can see the resulting series of images as a closed loop with no beginning and no end. This second, expanded edition includes the entire project of 196 exchanges that make up Dumontier and Lexier’s clever, competitive, and meandering loop of images. Creative people in art and design will take pleasure in browsing the book and discover formal analogies, witty poetic correspondence and dadaesque follies, which congregate to an unseen visual narrative. Truly an inspirational tool for creative activists!
£26.25
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Barcelona Urban Art
Book SynopsisAt dusk, when the pace of daily life comes to a halt, Barcelona's shops lower their shutters. From this simple gesture, a spectacular outdoor art exhibition is born, filling the night with stories full of colour and imagination. Filled with stunning full-colour photography, Barcelona Urban Art takes readers on a visual journey around the city's most vibrant and exciting street art hotspots, highlighting the work of some of Europe's most creative street artists.
£14.39
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Neo–Traditional Tattoo Coloring Book
Book SynopsisThis fabulous new colouring book features 90 original designs from popular Paris-based tattoo artist and illustrator Sunny Buick, all ready and waiting to be coloured in any way you like. Inside, you'll find everything from candy castles and sugar skulls to religious icons and classic tattoo symbols, and from circus animals and Day of the Dead decorations to ice creams and lollipops, and everything in between.
£12.74
Parkstone Press USA, Limited American Graffiti
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Exit Publicaciones Pablo Genovés
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Elegía Joseph Cornell
Book SynopsisEl presente texto es el registro de un descubrimiento de Mari?a Negroni: el cine de Joseph Cornell, artista del assemblage cercano al surrealismo que tambie?n cultivo? el film-collage con un estilo li?rico-documental, cuya capacidad de catalogar lo inso?lito fascino? a la poeta. A medio camino entre el poemario caligrama?tico y el libro-arte, esta pequen?a joya se lee como el diario i?ntimo de una observadora tras la estela de una imagen, la de una nena que pasa desnuda, montada sobre un corcel blanco, con el pelo que la cubre, como si fuera una versio?n diminuta?y perturbadora? de Lady Godiva.
£11.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Persian Calligraphy A Corpus Study of Letterforms
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices.Calligraphy can be considered a visual communicative system with different means of meaning-making or as a medium through which meaning is made and expression is conveyed via a complex grammar. This study looks at calligraphy as a systematic means in the field of visual communication, rather than as a one-dimensional and ad hoc means of providing visual beauty and aesthetic enjoyment. Revolving around different insights of multimodal social semiotics, the volume relies on the findings of a corpus study of Persian Nastaliq calligraphy. The research emphasizes the way in which letterforms, regardless of conventions in language, are applied as graphically meaningful forms that convey individual distinct meanings.This volume on PeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Corpus Analysis 3. Graphetic Analysis 4. Toward Semiotics of Nastaliq Calligraphy 5. Holliday's Triple Metafunctions: As Requisite of Any Semiotic Mode – In Nastaliq Calligraphy 6. Toward A Distinct Feature Analysis 7. Conclusion
£114.00
Taylor & Francis Form and Meaning in AvantGarde Collage and Montage
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£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd PostSocialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe
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£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The New American West in Literature and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New American West in Literature and the Arts A Journey Across Boundaries Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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£128.25
Cambridge University Press English Medieval Graffiti
Book SynopsisGraffiti ('drawings or writings scratched on a wall or other surface') are to be found incised on the walls and pillars of innumerable cathedrals and churches in Great Britain. Most were done between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries; many are valuable as examples of medieval art; and some are important for their preservation of particular styles of epigraphy. In this work, Mrs Pritchard has studied the inscriptions and drawings in a large number of churches, mostly within a radius of sixty miles of Cambridge. These graffiti are far from mere scratchings performed by unskilled hands; they are highly imaginative, boldly executed drawings, combining freedom of line with occasional fussiness of detail, and inscriptions whose clarity and precision of lettering equal in execution the contemporary manuscript. Many were subsequently covered by medieval wall paintings; others have been partly defaced by cleaning and restoration of the original stone. Mrs Pritchard illuminates a neglectTable of ContentsIntroduction; Descriptions of individual graffiti; Conclusion; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press Surrealist Collage in Text and Image
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new analysis of Surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. Illustrating many of the collages under discussion, it offers close readings of individual collages and proposes a radical reassessment of Surrealism.Trade Review"Here Elza Adamowicz offers an interestingly analyzed study of the various techniques of cutting, assembling, and pasting the parts that go to make up the kinds of collage, visual and verbal, constructed in surrealism, and...in dada before it. She is particularly good at the discussion of the subversive undermining of 'established narratives' and of organic wholes by the 'processes of substitution and displacement,' the theoretical background for it, and the individual exmaples adduced to support her statements." Mary Ann Caws, L'Esprit CreateurTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Beyond painting; 2. Cutting; 3. Pasting; 4. Cocking a snook; 5. Between Fantômas and Freud; 6. Masking; 7. The future of statues? 8. An impossible mosaic; Notes; Bibliography; Index of surrealist collages; Index.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press Art and Writing in the Maya Cities AD 600800 A Poetics of Line
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Cambridge University Press Copyright in the Street
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Cambridge University Press Copyright in the Street
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£85.50
MIT Press Ltd Absence of clutter minimal writing as art and
Book SynopsisAn exploration of minimal writing—texts generally shorter than a sentence—as complex, powerful literary and visual works.In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, and others built lucrative careers from text-based art. Meanwhile, poets and writers created works of minimal writing—visual texts generally shorter than a sentence. (One poem by Aram Saroyan reads in its entirety: eyeye.) In absence of clutter, Paul Stephens offers the first comprehensive account of minimal writing, arguing that it is equal in complexity and power to better-known, more commercial text-based art.Minimal writing, Stephens writes, can be beguilingly simple on the surface, but can also offer iterative reading experiences on multiple levels, from the fleeting to the ponderous. “absence of clutter,” for example, the
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University of Washington Press Lesley Dills Poetic Visions
Book SynopsisUnified by layers of words, figures, and symbolic imagery, underlines Dill's desire to render transcendental experience into form
£15.19
Random House USA Inc Mehndi Art of Henna Body Painting
Book SynopsisThe magical art of mehndi, or henna painting, has been practiced for centuries in India, Africa, and the Middle East, and now it has finally arrived in the West. Packed with inspirational photographs of traditional and contemporary mehndi, this complete resource offers everything you need to create your own beautiful henna designs, including: • dozens of practice exercises and sample illustrations • a foolproof recipe for mixing the henna paste• step-by-step instructions on how to apply your mehndi design• insider's tips from professional mehndi artists and more!
£9.49
The History Press Ltd Sharrow Vale and the Antiques Quarter
Book SynopsisCandid street photography depicting the essence of life and culture in Sharrow Vale & Sheffield's Antiques Quarter
£23.46
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Miami Contemporary Artists
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd ARTtitude Contemporary Graphic Art
Book SynopsisDrawing is not a crime!? The bold and brash ARTtitude is back with another look at some of the most iconic and unusual artists of the moment. Representing countries as far-reaching and distinct as Colombia, Germany, Canada, Italy, France, and the U.S. (to name a few), the 36 international artists featured in this collection reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary graphic arts. The artists again pay tribute to the muses of their creativity, with appreciative nods to their predecessors and track lists of the music that inspires their work. ARTtitude 2 highlights some of the unique and diverse artists working today: Amanda Mocci, Jim Phillips, Conrad Roset, Cricket Press, Robert Proch, Ron Guyatt, T-Bone & Ajax, The Arcade Company, and many more.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Art of the Mural Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis first installment in a four-part series is a celebratory tour of some of the most vibrant, impressive, contemporary mural art in the world. Fifty artists from six continents share nearly 400 examples of their best work and a little bit about their own lives and journeys as muralists. The criteria for inclusion in the book was simple: the artists had to be full-time muralists who push the boundaries of the art form and engage with the medium as a vital social concept. Many of these artists don''t have homes; they travel the globe, entering foreign communities and cultures, and find shelter from hosts of festivals or art lovers. It''s this dedication to their craft that sets this breed of artists apart from traditional artists, such as painters and sculptors, but their level of commitment is also what bridges the worlds of fine art and street art.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Uptown Downtown
Book SynopsisNew York graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the ''70s and ''80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using transit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST,T-KID,QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2,SKEME,and others decorated ordinary 23 × 32 MTA maps with their personal tags and graphicsechoing the heyday of New York train graffiti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than 100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters'' artistic evolution and style. Like a dynamic piece book, or sketchbook, this collection is an exclusive sampling of the painters'' signature strokes and tags in portable form. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as a springboard from the fleeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of the international art gallery circuit.
£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2Create Art Collaborations in New York City
Book SynopsisNine pairs of NYC's finest graffiti and street artists share their individual processes and collaborative projects. This beautifully designed book showcases the work of nine pairs of New York City's finest graffiti and street artists, delving deep into their backgrounds, techniques, and collaborative processes.Each duo consists of artists with unique styles who come together to create a larger-than-life work of street art in a neighborhood in New York,the birthplace of modern graffiti. Witness the immense creative potential of collaborations that have produced stunning examples ofclassic graffiti, collage work, screen printing, and murals.Each chapter provides access to a mysterious underworld, leading readers to secretive meetings of creative minds out of which ephemeral, yet nonetheless remarkable, works are born and later transferred onto walls, rooftops, trucks, and subway platforms. The combination of revealing interviews and colorful action photography produces a narrative arc of relationshipsformed between individuals from diverse backgrounds and creative upbringingsthat follows the artistic processfrom creative spark to collaborative masterpiece.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Little Book of Book Making
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Design Destroy
Book SynopsisDesign & Destroy presents a liberating new approach to the creative process with over 150 inspiring artistic and writing prompts.
£8.11
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Capture Japan
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIs “capturing” Japan in images possible? Bohr’s anthology provides intriguing answers to this challenging question. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary and transcultural work that traces the production and global reshaping of “Japanese” images in post-World War II Japan and beyond. * Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan *Japan may not be quite the fearsome economic dynamo it once was, but for that very reason its art world is attracting ever more attention. This book is a compelling series of essays by major scholars on the full spread of Japanese art from the immediate post-War, to now. It is essential reading for all those interested in Japan, in Modernity, in Contemporary Art, and in how non-Western modes of expression compete and conflate with those coming from the West. * Timon Screech, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan *‘Rich in tangible examples ranging from art photography and film culture through to video games, this volume demonstrates the importance of studying Japan and "Japan", proving how inextricably linked they are. Capture Japan will prove highly valuable in the Japanese-studies classroom and beyond.’ * Jaqueline Berndt, Professor in Japanese Language and Culture, Stockholm University, Sweden *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Text and Translation Introduction, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part One: Signs Introduction to Part One, Marco Bohr 1. Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan, Miyao Daisuke (University of California, USA) 2. Dreaming of Mexico: Japanese Artists Discover the Other, Ramona Bajema (Japan Society, USA) 3. Re/Placing Barthes in the Post-Bubble Era: Youthful Disaffection, Online Fandom, and the Reoriented Visions of ‘Japan’ in Iwai Shunji’s All About Lily Chou-Chou, Man-tat Terence Leung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Part Two: Myths Introduction to Part Two, Marco Bohr 4. The ‘Last Japanese Soldier’: Putting the Nation into Play, Martin Picard (Leipzig University, Germany) and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 5. Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Emergence of a Geopolitical ‘Japanese style’, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 6. Japan as an ‘erotic paradise’ in the Sino-Japanese mobility context: ethnographic encounters, Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) Part Three: Ruins Introduction to Part Three, Marco Bohr 7. Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period, Takenaka Yumi Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 8. Fractured Land, Then and Now: The Resurgence of Ruins in the 1996 Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Carrie L. Cushman (University of Hartford, USA) 9. Burnt Dresses Left for the Future – Ishiuchi Miyako’s photographic series hiroshima (2007–present), Hagiwara Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Part Four: Transformations Introduction to Part Four, Marco Bohr 10. Representing Japan: Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping in the many Careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) 11. Myth, Manga, Technology and Gender: Chobits and the Postwar Pygmalion, Selma A. Purac (Western University, Canada) 12. Personal Connections and Global Relations: Staging “Japan of the Imagination” in the 1980s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) Index
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