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Claudia Walde
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Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art
Автор: Claudia Walde Жанр: Thames&Hudson Издательство: Thames&Hudson Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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In hundreds of illustrations, this book celebrates the amazing variety and ingenuity of today's urban artists. The popularity of sticker art has rocketed among contemporary urban artists, but the medium's history stretches back to the 1950s and is intertwined with the growth of the advertising industry. Countless urban artists have cited the fight against ubiquitous consumer manipulation as their reason for choosing to work so publicly in the streets. In the early 20th century the medium became popular with the Dadaists; in the 1960s artists started to use large-size posters. In the late 1970s, the so-called 'Suicide Club' and 'Billboard Liberation Front' became known through their altered advertising posters. Only a few urban artists revealed their identities and they often felt ill at ease in the sterile atmosphere of galleries, chose their own paths and captured their own audiences. However, the greatest creative act of rebellion in urban spaces was the graffiti movement...
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Street Fonts: Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World
Автор: Claudia Walde Жанр: Thames&Hudson Издательство: Thames&Hudson Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries. Each artist received the same brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. The result is a unique typographical sourcebook featuring over 150 specially designed, original alphabets exclusive to this book.
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