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OverviewUrban art at its most effective offers the liberatory tools for declaring oneself a part of one's environment, and for countering the strictures and regimentation of public space with murals and stenciled graffiti. By means of sometimes subtle, often humorous, occasionally confrontational or even deliberately offensive interventions in the urban landscape, artists have challenged our habitual ways of seeing and plunged us into a dynamic civic dialogue of actions, objects, sculptures and texts. At the center of this publication are works from the Reinking Collection, which contains representative works by the most influential artists of the street art movement, such as Brad Downey, Banksy, Mark Jenkins and Zevs. The book examines some of the possible reasons for the recent growth in popularity of urban art and discusses the ambiguous effect that the transfer of these works into a museum environment has had on both the art itself and its reception. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ingo ClauaPublisher: Hatje Cantz Imprint: Hatje Cantz Dimensions: Width: 22.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 17.00cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9783775725033ISBN 10: 3775725032 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 16 July 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |