Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
 

Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents

by Nicholas Ganz

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... (read more)

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I shoulda been in this book! But seriously, this book is a huge volume of graffiti from around the world. While it has the usual suspects (Daim, Seak, 3A Crew, Cope2, etc) it does manage to spotlight a wide variety of otherwise unknown artists in far-away countries like Japan and Australia. Get it if only for the collection. Full color with brief (too brief) backgrounds on each artist/crew.

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