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The book ""Devandalized"" pays homage to decades of street art mostly in and around New York City. The author/artist use of assemblage as an artistic form and medium has combined the famous with the infamous to create an art form larger than the sum of its parts. Street art is far and away the world's most globally accessible genre of contemporary art.New York has produced influential graffiti and street artists over the decades.Graffiti and street art can be controversial. But it can also be a medium for voices of social change, protest, or expressions of community desire.Sticking stickers to our hands and books, some of the artists have taken this concept to the streets. They make eye-catching stickers of different sizes and post them out on the streets to the trees, lampposts, walls and benches. While some stickers can be removed easily, others are meant to stay for a long time.Street art is embedded in the DNA of our streets and this contemporary art is becoming the most influential movements we've ever seen.Urban and street art have seen an unprecedented rise in popularity.Street art is regarded as one of the largest art movements that has achieved huge popularity and is still rapidly growing as an art form.

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“Devandalized: 1987-2017 is a significant book about a compelling artist’s process and practice.”        – Stephen Wozniak Writer for Whitehot Magazine  “Devandalized” is a series of paintings and collages that preserve and reflect the ongoing street dialogue that appears along streetlamps, newspaper bins, metal gates, door coverings and brick walls throughout cities around the world including New York.”  – Jill Connor Art Critic and Curator

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Egon Zippel was born in Timioara, Romania, in 1960 to German parents. When Romania's future dictator, Nicolae Ceauescu, rose to power in the early 1960s, the Zippel's presciently left Romania in 1964 for the Mannheim-Heidelberg region of Germany, to begin life anew. After a stint in the German army, 1979-1981, Egon studied graphic design at the University of Mannheim and received a Fulbright scholarship comprising an introductory month at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Texas in Austin. Over the next few years, he studied computer graphics at the New York Institute of Technology and continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute for New Media at the Stdel Art Academy in Frankfurt 1993-1994. Egon moved to New York City in 1996. Egon believes in predetermination as well as free will and everything in-between. Wrestling with these contradictions makes life playful and infinitely more complex.

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