Banksy Books – Wall and Piece
Banksy has gone from underground graffiti artist to mainstream guerrilla artist in the matter of a short few years but how much do you actually know about Banksy and were you aware Banksy books written about his art and it’s many locations and guises?
Wall & Piece
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except might be when it’s squatting in the Tate or Big Apple’s metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of cities and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. If you look closely enough you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns perceptive and impertinent comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the struggle in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he is’s putting together the best of his work old and new in an entirely illustrated colour volume.
Banksy Locations and Tours: Revised and Updated for 2008: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London
A Collection of Graffiti Locations & photographs in London, essentially of Banksy’s street work
- 3 Banksy tours in London
- sixty five Detailed Graffiti Locations
- Over one hundred Colour photos
- Also including graffiti by Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le Rat, D*face, and Shepard Fairey / Obey.
Do you want rambling the streets of London searching for graffiti, especially that from Banksy? Or do you prefer just sitting at home in your comfortable chair, taking a look at pictures of his street work and reading a bit about them?
This unique, 100% unlicensed, book lets you do either and is reliant on the free tours and location information that Martin Bull analyzed and offered to the public. Follow Martin’s street tours or make your own DIY tour. Collect all the locations like a geek or just wander around, stop at the assorted quirky local attractions and explore parts of London you will never have visited before. Or simply flick thru the book whilst on the toilet.
Banksy’s Bristol : Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is a celebrating of Banksy’s street art in his home town of Bristol. This book places him in the context of 3D, John country from the Barton Hill Settlement, Inkie, Nick hiker and the other artists and musicians who were instrumental in linking Bristol to the original New York hip hop scene. It’s the most revealing account of Banksy’s earlier years and contains more than one hundred pictures of his Bristol art, as well as photos of Banksy at work, many of which haven’t ever been printed|broadcast|published} before. Steve Wright, location magazine’s Art Editor, traces Banksy’s roots back to the rave culture of the Nineties and draws a rounded picture of an artist who is most famed for being unnamed.
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