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Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art (with cd-rom)

Door Steve Grody

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#357268-WD22
Titel	Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art (with cd-rom)
Auteur	Grody, Steve
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Abrams
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0810992981
ISBN13	9780810992986
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with colour photographs throughout, CD-ROM in pocket in rear, 4to.
Samenvatting	Documents modern trends in graffiti and street art in Los Angeles, while also providing a history of the art form in the city. This work presents an examination of technique, an exploration of socio-cultural issues in crew dynamics, battles and apprenticeship and interviews with the most prominent artists round out the text. 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 confluence of cultures that has led to regionally distinctive styles. Graffi... (Lees verder)ti L. A. provides a comprehensive and visual history of graffiti in Los Angeles, as well as an in-depth examination of the myriad styles and techniques used by writers today. Complementing the main text, interviews with L. A.'s most prolific and infamous writers provide insight into the lives of these fugitive artists. Essential to the understanding of the development of the graffiti movement, this book will be an invaluable source to graffiti fans around the world.
Pagina's	303
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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