Untitled.: Street Art in the Counter Culture

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Book Review: Interesting and provocative book, part hoax and part hype, but it's street art as book
Summary: 5 Stars

Summary of Untitled.: Street Art in the Counter Culture

Review This one I'd reference as tasty popcorn and perhaps there lies its zeitgeist and achievement. There's loads of great artwork inside and the pictures are well shot. The random stops, texts and sort of useful via useless explanation in things did get addictive. I raced through them. I didn't close the book til I'd gotten through it all. The book feels like a well communicated poem. Pictures and words interacting to create a commentary that is punk enough to follow its own drum.

Review A completely different take on the graffiti book with this trip around the worlds best street art. Where else can you find a line such as "So when they put the flags on the moon, how is that not tagging"? All in all its in a class of its own and all the better for it.

Review Comical but quite cynical words gently probe and provoke the reader throughout on areas such as advertising, hype, society, urban life, rebellion, legislation and other street art related topics and it's this editorial that sets the book apart from the current spate of pretenders.

Product Description Not to be filed under history, photography, design or non-fiction, as it contains outright lies and outrageous subjective opinion, this book is definitely about street art. It is also about now. Fungus grows on your collected wild-style pioneers. Vile passions rage between old schools and new. Stuff flies out from under the hammer at auction houses and property developers fund street art shows to liberal press fanfare. Oh, and Banksy hits the West Bank. Is anyone taking this thing seriously? Should it be taken seriously? Is it all just an immense daisy chain of poker faces, irony and mind games?

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