Graffiti Paris
Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation of stickers to cleverly applied stencils to...
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Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation of stickers to cleverly applied stencils to giant murals. In Graffiti Paris, Fabienne Grévy takes readers on a tour of Paris’s street art, and also discusses the variety of unique sources that inspire the artists, including the cave paintings at Lascaux, nineteenth-century Japanese blockprints, and comics.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780810970892 (0810970899)
Publish date: June 1st 2008
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
"Look around and take notice of the traces left by street artists on the city's walls and pavement. Rethink the city, rediscover its surfaces, and map out walks that may lead you to new graphic horizons. Find something in the least imaginable places, choose what to look at — beauty is where you disc...
As one of the world centres of graffiti and street art in general, Paris has it's own perfectly unique style with a wide range of mediums specific to its allies. In Graffiti Paris, stencils, posters, and silk screens all featured prominently among your more common forms of spray paint.The graffiti f...
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