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    <body><![CDATA[Banksy...ah. One of my favorite artistes...Yes, I mean to say that in French, because it sounds better. Anywho, Banksy, a classic Guerilla-Political-Mad-Skilled stencil artist-OK, so he's a graffitti artist. But in this book, you realize just from the photoes that he's a quick-witted guy, with a mys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41794841">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Provocative and clever, but I would argue ultimately vapid. Something like an underground cultural icon for urban youth today. I only see three basic techniques or themes in his methods:<br/><br/>Irony. Soldiers painting peace signs, zoo monkeys holding homeless signs, traffic signs warning of mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65912664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you do not know Banksy, you do not know art.<br/>Art as in confrontational, public, political, and utter satire.<br/>He's a tagger/graffiti artist (supposedly anonymous) who bombs* London and the English countryside.<br/>*bombing is the sorta-militant, hip-hop term for &quot;defacing&quot; pub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54833599">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, you can find out a little about Banksy, the pseudo-anonymous graffiti artist, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy">Here</a>.<br/><br/>The copyright page of this book contains the label &quot;<strong>Copyright is for Losers</strong>&quot; along with the statement that &quot;<em>against his better judgment Banksy has asserted his right... to be i...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57117195">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing collection of images from an artist who has taken the the form of public art we call graphitti and elevated it somewhere above our normal awareness. People walk by his pieces everyday and never see them. Then i saw one of his pieces in New Orleans that had a plexi-glass cases over it so t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78158493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>&quot;The people who run our cities don't understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit...They say graffiti frightens people and is symbolic of the decline in society, but graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63132357">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Banksy is the most original artist (or potentially &quot;artists&quot;...) living today.  Screw Matthew Barney's &quot;Cremaster&quot; series and all the Rothko and Rauschenberg nonsense some of the more effete curators shove down your throats.  This is art at its most emotional and provocative, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81682538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is definitely the best at what he does. I love going through this book over and over and finding new subtleties on each page. His art will crack you up and make you think...I like the little rats especially (you cant go wrong with rats in hats). Check out the tips for stenciling at the end....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55098771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In response to the billboards and posters that prominently display ads, slogans, and other corporate messages, Banksy also uses the wall to fight back with his own messages. About his fight against The Advertisers, he claims “they have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you,” and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33416675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you do not know Banksy, then I suggest you get familiar with his work right now...it is some of the most relevant, imaginative, humorous, and controversial art I have ever encountered. Imagine the collage artist Winston Smith, but simplified, writ large, and illegally placed within the culture on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31053762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This image, which is wrapped around the cover of the book in a way that doesn’t let you see the punch line, caught my attention and drew me in. I sat with the book at Barnes &amp; Noble for about 20 minutes and decided I needed to buy it and bring it home.<br/><br/>I think I may have seen some of Ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5595301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Nobody ever listened to me until the didn’t know who I was”</em><br/><br/>- Banksy<br/><br/><br/>I’ve always been a fan of street art, loving graffiti from the minute I saw Beat Street in my parent’s suburban home. I am not going to argue that every tag is beautiful, but some definitel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4733285">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of photos from the urban graffiti artist Banksy. Sometimes, he likes to bring his guerilla art to more upscale venues like fancy museums, pulling off some unbelievable pranks (how does he do it really?). Occasionally he has some very funny ancedotes to share with the reader abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66757050">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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