EAN: 9783791388243

MATTANZA ALESSANDRA BANKSY [ENGLISH EDITION]

The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial
graffiti artist  this deeply researched and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy
continues to defy accepted wisdom about artistic success  growing only more famous and powerful
even as he sticks to his anti-establishment platform and to his mission to give a voice to the
voiceless.   Accompanied by stunning full-page  full-color reproductions and photographs of
works in situ-including many that have been lost to time-photographer and street art expert
Alessandra Mattanza's impassioned and informed text follows Banksy's career trajectory from
creator of message-laden stencils on London's city walls to a sought-after champion of human
and environmental rights. She investigates many of the key images that populate Banksy's
work-animals  children  historic figures  balloons  cartoon characters  police officers  and
others. She shows how Banksy's oeuvre has expanded beyond graffiti and stenciling and how his
art has helped support his activism in a variety of causes-from calls for peace in the Middle
East to the preservation of the natural environment. Readers will come away with a new
understanding of how Banksy helped transform an illegal act of criminal damage into a high art
form  and how  by ridiculing institutionalized art  he has achieved enormous fame within those
very institutions.

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