Illegal: Street Art Graffiti 1960-1995 (Blanch Ulrich)(Paperback)

The history of street art up to Bansky—four decades of trailblazing graffiti in Europe.

Graffiti has always been a wild, free, and ephemeral art form—from its origins in the 1960s through the photographs of Brassaï, who transformed graffiti into art, to the Sprayer of Zurich in the 1970s and the appearance of the first works by Banksy in England. This book studies the illegal roots of the art form with over 120 vandals from more than a dozen countries, tracing its journey to the dawn of the new millennium.

Where do the origins of street art and graffiti lie? In the far-flung region betwe
více informací a parametry