Untitled.: Street Art in The Counter Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955912105 ISBN 13: 9780955912108

Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2008

Synopsis

Not to be filed under history, photography, design or non-fiction, as it contains outright lies and outrageous subjective opinion, this book is definitely about street art. It is also about now. Fungus grows on your collected wild-style pioneers. Vile passions rage between old schools and new. Stuff flies out from under the hammer at auction houses and property developers fund street art shows to liberal press fanfare. Oh, and Banksy hits the West Bank. Is anyone taking this thing seriously? Should it be taken seriously? Is it all just an immense daisy chain of poker faces, irony and mind games?

About this title

Review:

This one I'd reference as tasty popcorn and perhaps there lies its zeitgeist and achievement. There's loads of great artwork inside and the pictures are well shot. The random stops, texts and sort of useful via useless explanation in things did get addictive. I raced through them. I didn't close the book til I'd gotten through it all.
The book feels like a well communicated poem. Pictures and words interacting to create a commentary that is punk enough to follow its own drum.

From the Publisher:

Untitled: Street Art in the Counter Culture is the definitive book covering street art today. Containing work attributed to: Banksy, Faile, DFace, Swoon, Bast, Blu, Blek Le Rat, Nick Walker, Obey, Dolk, Judith Supine, Eine, Gaia, Elbowtoe, Hush, Copyright, Mir, Dan Witz, Space Invader, Armsrock, Doze Green, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Skullphone, WKInteract, Skewville, Borf, Ame72, Sam3, Eelus, Miss Bugs, Rene Gagnon, The London Police, Michael De Feo and many many more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0955912105
• ISBN 13: 9780955912108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192