Guerrila Art

1. GUERRILLA ART
Forget Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. Street art is where it’s at. Sure Warhol and Pollock were big in the ‘60s (okay their legends still live on) but these days we’re more interested in stencils, paint, oil brush, stickers, posters and airbrush from artists like UK’s Banksy or the graffiti-inspired street art pioneers Futura, Ramm:ell:zee and Blek le Rat. Guerilla Art takes care of this with interviews from international street artists – Banksy, Os Gemeos, Invader, Barnstormers, Futura, Ramm:ell:zee, WK Interact, Zevs, Blek le Rat, Andre, Noki and Eine – discussing their own work and the scene around them. Accompanying the book is a DVD showing some of the artists at work. And it wouldn’t be a street art book without big colourful pictures. *** BP
$45 published by Laurence King, distributed by Thames & Hudson

Graffiti World New Edition

2. GRAFFITI WORLD
Graffiti World is what Jay Z is to hip hop – on top of the game. The mother of all graffiti books, Graffiti World has over 2000 photographs, comprehensive information on grafs history and insight into the worlds top graf writers (it’s even divided into alphabetical sections of America, Europe and The Rest Of The World). Did you know graffiti was derived from the Italian word ‘sgraffio’ meaning scratch? And in 1904 toilet graffiti was focused in a magazine for the first time. But we all know how it really started – on the streets of New York and Philly in the ‘70s. This weighty tome reflects the changes of early graffiti to new school graffiti, the direction it’s going in and a look at all the different types of expressions these artists use in the graffiti world. If you’re a bit of a novice with this street art business then this is the book for you. Get your bookworm on. ***** BP
$59.95 published by Thames & Hudson, distributed by Thames & Hudson

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