Street Art - Johannes Stahl
This little book is a gem. Affordable, dense and authorative. It asks the right questions. It has one of the best histories of graffiti ive found yet. With images of napoleon and artist granville tagging walls of yesteryear. Wonderful mini essays on how tagging was part of your european tour in the tourism crazes of the 1800s.
It adresses the origins, the contradictions and evolution of street art. Even a bit on technique.
I wish id had this writing my thesis. It mislabels marvel comics howard the duck as a grimy donald duck like other books on street art but they all get something wrong ducumenting ephemera and fashion.
Get this little cracker of a book - one of the best.
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