Excelente libro!! un gran muestra de arte urbano a todo nivel!!

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	• Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents Nicholas Ganz Harry N. Abrams, 2004 - 376 pages average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ripped Cover

The book is rad, there is better street art out there than what is in thisb book but it was still worth the purchase. It was delivered in a heshen bag with a ripped cover.

Worldly

I bought this for my 14 year old daughter and would recommend this for any urban artist. It captures so many excellent murals and other types of graffiti from around the world. Just when you think you've found your favorite artist, you turn the page to find another. Regardless of how you feel about scripture on walls, trains and buses, the art and freedom that exudes from each picture is awesome and beyond the descriptive word. They just are!

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Pure pleasure!

Great quality pictures! Amazing graffitis and some other kind of wall art by artist and continent.

Excelente libro!! un gran muestra de arte urbano a todo nivel!!

Escribo estas líneas como un amante del graffiti y de la cultura urbana en general. Como tal debo decir que soy muy exigente cuando veo libros o revistas sobre este tipo de arte, habiendo ya comprado varias ediciones y libros que se venden aquí en Amazon así como en diversas librerias como en España y Chile. Sin embargo, ninguno se compara a este en lo que se refiere a la calidad de las imagenes y la selección de las obras (porque vaya que son reales obras de arte!!). Este libro aborda no distintos aspectos del greffiti, pues hace una breve introducción en la cual describe la historia de este arte desde la época antigua, hasta la historio del mismo en nuestros días. Luego de pasar por más de 350 páginas de gloriosos diseños, el libro termina dando una breve síntesis de los datos de información de los diston "crews" o grupos, un glosario, bibliografía de respaldo y hasta una lista de páginas web y revistas de referencia.

En lo respecta a la vedette del libro, esto es, las imágenes, estas son simplemente espectaculares!! En efecto, en este libro se han registrado las más impactantes y representativas imagenes de las pincipales capitales mundiales del graffiti. Así tenemos en un solo libro una selección de algunos de los mejores graffitis de Chile, Brasil, Nueva York, Los Angeles, Italia, Francia, Alemania, Japón, entre otros. Si bien es cierto por la fecha de edición del mismo (2004) no han recogido más obras representativas de ciudades latinoamericanas (como la barca del Rio Mapocho en Chile, graffitis de Rio o Sau Paulo, o el reciente boom artístico registrado en Lima-Perú, el cual ha sido objeto de reportajes en noticieros) este no deja de ser un importante registro pictórico de lo que representa tanto artística como culturalmente el mundo del graffiti.

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Graffiti World

I bought this book for my boyfriend (who loves graffiti art) for Christmas and he loved it! :)

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Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published.

Today's young graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums-including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk-as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world. Great fun for graffiti and pop-culture buffs, the book is also an essential reference work for anyone involved in the visual arts today. AUTHOR BIO: Nicholas Ganz (also known as Keinom, his pen name) is a graffiti artist who has traveled around the world to gather material for this book. He lives in Essen, Germany. Tristan Manco is a graphic artist and director of Bristol-based Tijuana Design. He is the author of Stencil Graffiti and Street Logos.

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