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Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City's major art museums, he's also "hung" his work at London's Tate Gallery and adorned Israel's West Bank barrier with satirical images. Banksy's identity remains unknown,
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2006
by Century
(first published March 7th 1988)
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Everyone in Britain knows Banksy, but I'm often surprised to find that my US friends haven't heard of him. He's one of the funniest artists around, and has taken graffiti to a completely new level. The paintings and installations just turn up, in the most unlikely places. Here's one of my favorites, which was discovered one morning on the wall of a family planning clinic in Bristol. (Note the thematically appropriate content). The local authorities were going to remove it, but the doctors asked
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Wall and Piece, Banksy
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The identity of Banksy remains unknown, but his work is prolific. This title is the collected works of Britain's most wanted artist.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و سوم ماه اکتبر سال 2010 میلادی
عنوان: بنکسی: دیوار و اثر هنری مولف: بنکسی مترجم و ویراستار ساناز فرازی تهران کتاب آبان 1389 در 240ص مصور رنگی شابک 9789648913767 عنوان روی جلد بنسکی دیوار و گرافیتی موضوع هنر خیابانی ...more
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The identity of Banksy remains unknown, but his work is prolific. This title is the collected works of Britain's most wanted artist.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و سوم ماه اکتبر سال 2010 میلادی
عنوان: بنکسی: دیوار و اثر هنری مولف: بنکسی مترجم و ویراستار ساناز فرازی تهران کتاب آبان 1389 در 240ص مصور رنگی شابک 9789648913767 عنوان روی جلد بنسکی دیوار و گرافیتی موضوع هنر خیابانی ...more
After seeing this next post on Tumblr, I simply had to add this book to my TBR.
A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
I was looking for something to lift my spirits a bit, and thank the stars for sending this piece of art in my direction. Wall and Piece is guaranteed to brighten even your bleakest day.
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world.
Wall and Piece sets the mood ...more
A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
I was looking for something to lift my spirits a bit, and thank the stars for sending this piece of art in my direction. Wall and Piece is guaranteed to brighten even your bleakest day.
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world.
Wall and Piece sets the mood ...more
Disclaimer: Haters are not cool. I'm not 'hating' Banksy because it's the hipster thing to do (go grab an art school undergrad, you'll see what I mean). One problem with reviewing solo-artist art book is that you can't avoid talking about the actual artist, so here it is. I can't even be bothered to write about graphics. I mean, surely you're only considering buying this book because of the guy not the pretty layout right?
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Jan 17, 2011
Kirsti
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Jenny, Kristin
Shelves:
nonfiction,
humor,
mayhem,
arts-and-photography,
history,
philosophy,
anger,
poetry,
imagination,
sarcasm
In 2003, Banksy donated one of his artworks to the Tate Gallery in London. The thing is, the Tate Gallery hadn't actually asked for anything of his. He just walked in (or had a friend walk in, or had a member of the collective walk in--Banksy's true identity is uncertain) and stuck it to the wall. This is just the kind of appalling disrespect that I think the world needs more of.
Over the next couple of years, he made similar donations to the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, ...more
Over the next couple of years, he made similar donations to the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, ...more
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.
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I loved this. Particularly this
Feb 23, 2014
Matt
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really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
might-tell-you-the-truth,
paint-the-daytime
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know the work of Banksy, and those who should. I recommend this book to both.
I think this quote from the back cover says a lot about Banksy:
"There's no way you're going to get a quote
from us on your book cover"
Metropolitan Police spokesperson
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Update 6 October 2018
Banksy artwork 'doubles in value' after being shredded in front of stunned onlookers moments after it was sold for over £1m at Sotheby's auction.
Wie ...more
Thought provoking and powerful - a tour de force of the absurdity that has become institutionalized in our modern world.
(my copy has the "now with 10% more crap" red sticker in the lower right corner)
This book holds examples of graffiti/stencil artist Banksy, from 2001 to 2006, which aren't always on walls, and not always just with paint :) Sometimes it's just his name. Often the photographs have information with it: time, place, how long did it take to do it, how long it lasted - at least once in the last one the art was saved into a collection!
Surfaces: walls, animals, on grass and beach sand, vehicles of road ...more
This book holds examples of graffiti/stencil artist Banksy, from 2001 to 2006, which aren't always on walls, and not always just with paint :) Sometimes it's just his name. Often the photographs have information with it: time, place, how long did it take to do it, how long it lasted - at least once in the last one the art was saved into a collection!
Surfaces: walls, animals, on grass and beach sand, vehicles of road ...more
Like many people, I just find the story of Banksy -- a sort of artist Robin Hood -- incredibly compelling. In my head this most elusive of graffiti artists looks like Sean Bean and drives a Lotus Elan or something like that. This book spares the words and lavishes the photographs, letting Banksy's political statements, hastily and secretly sprayed onto walls, speak for themselves. If Banksy was just an anarchist, rustling with discontent, this book, and his art, would be unimpressive. But
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Added later: I found it quite moving, his description of being drawn to graffiti the outside of the walls imprisoning the Palestinians and being told off in no uncertain terms by the inhabitants. To beautify the walls is to insult them. Of course. Obvious when you think of it.
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I'm loving this, of course. And it's not that I disagree, exactly, with his messages, but a dominant one is this idea that
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I'm loving this, of course. And it's not that I disagree, exactly, with his messages, but a dominant one is this idea that
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The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the
Mar 13, 2015
Sara Alaee
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
Those who love art!
Shelves:
non-fiction,
art
This book is a collection of Graffitis that Banksy - one of the worlds most famous street artists - has painted on walls, streets, bridges and many other open places throughout the world. Quite amazing and artistic. (To know what graffiti is, the following lines give the best explanation of it as a piece of art):
Graffiti is not the lowest from of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum its actually the most honest artform available. There is no elitism or hype, it ...more
Graffiti is not the lowest from of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum its actually the most honest artform available. There is no elitism or hype, it ...more
Earlier this week Banksy's Devolved Parliament was sold for £9.9M. I am sure Banksy's haters wouldn't be too happy about it (ask their partners what they did that night :P) and Banksy would be having a hell of a laughter over this.
My friend, a fellow Banksy lover, commented
"If you show people some (exquisite) meaning in what you do, they'll resort immediately to revaluing the entire thing in terms of money"
But of course this time he was talking about the strip club they went to, in the summer. ...more
My friend, a fellow Banksy lover, commented
"If you show people some (exquisite) meaning in what you do, they'll resort immediately to revaluing the entire thing in terms of money"
But of course this time he was talking about the strip club they went to, in the summer. ...more
I noticed this yesterday in the window of a bookshop on the Route de Carouge. The translator has found quite a clever way of rendering the title: War and Peace in French is Guerre et paix, and "paix" sounds similar to "spray". The odd thing is that he's done it by moving the pun from "War" to "Peace"!
I read this book after watching the video "Make the wall" that I had already found excellent.
It's amazing.
I don't like artists who are content with a work of form, aesthetics. For me the art must also be social, I like the sentence of René Char "what comes to the world so as not to disturb anything deserves neither respect nor patience".
Frankly contemporary art, for what I know, deserves neither ... nor ... according to the criterion given above.
Banksy is clearly an exception.
It's disturbing, ...more
It's amazing.
I don't like artists who are content with a work of form, aesthetics. For me the art must also be social, I like the sentence of René Char "what comes to the world so as not to disturb anything deserves neither respect nor patience".
Frankly contemporary art, for what I know, deserves neither ... nor ... according to the criterion given above.
Banksy is clearly an exception.
It's disturbing, ...more
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:
Irony. Soldiers painting peace signs, zoo monkeys holding homeless signs, traffic signs warning of more (or less) serious things. They're all clever enough, but ultimately just artifacts of a stagnant, consumerist generation that's well aware of its stagnation and consumerism. Like television commercials that ...more
Irony. Soldiers painting peace signs, zoo monkeys holding homeless signs, traffic signs warning of more (or less) serious things. They're all clever enough, but ultimately just artifacts of a stagnant, consumerist generation that's well aware of its stagnation and consumerism. Like television commercials that ...more
I love Banksy's artwork, and this was collection displays it very well. He's a brilliant man with a paint can, and a clever writer as well. I would recommend this book to anyone not familiar with his work. A few quotes of his I enjoyed were:
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules--it's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
A ...more
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules--it's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
A ...more
An impressive collection of Banky's work, plus, this book has the added bonus of him commenting on his own art, rather than someone else. Never has anyone made drab walls get our full attention more than Banksy. Anyone truly interested in him should check it out.
Thought provoking....
Banksy is clever without being deep, adventurous without being ground-breaking, and quite possibly the best known visual artist active in the world without being extremely talented. He's against the global soulless corporate machine, but his art is by nature a quick hit, the artistic equivalent of a Big Mac. It's incredibly refreshing and accessible and it's art that actually means something.
In a wander through a museum like the MoMA or the Tate Modern, you see some interesting designs, the ...more
In a wander through a museum like the MoMA or the Tate Modern, you see some interesting designs, the ...more
During my studies at the Law school, I came across this poetic expression in a boring document about the administrative decentralization in the EU: The world is like your home, except that it has few more walls..
To me, the essence of Banksy's art incarnates this quote for it is humanistic and internationalist.
Banksy is an English artist from Bristol and thats all we know.
He remains anonymous and is still hiding his real identity, like the awesome guys from the Daft Punk. He is internationally ...more
To me, the essence of Banksy's art incarnates this quote for it is humanistic and internationalist.
Banksy is an English artist from Bristol and thats all we know.
He remains anonymous and is still hiding his real identity, like the awesome guys from the Daft Punk. He is internationally ...more
An art book that probably hates that it's an art book. Of note:
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover" --Metropolitan Police spokesperson, quoted on back cover
"Copyright is for losers" --copyright page
"Despite what they say graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has ...more
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover" --Metropolitan Police spokesperson, quoted on back cover
"Copyright is for losers" --copyright page
"Despite what they say graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has ...more
There are many great stencilists in this world (Orion and Fairey come to mind), but Banksy is up there with the best of them. Some people enjoy hating on him because he makes loads of money out of stencilling these days and his messages are sometimes vaguely anti-establishment. I remember Charlie Brooker once dedicating a whole article to how much he thinks Banksy blows nuts and it's the only time I've found myself disagreeing with my personal Jesus.
This is because if we focus on the artistry ...more
This is because if we focus on the artistry ...more
Nobody ever listened to me until they didnt know who I was.
When I lived in LA a few years ago, I went to a downtown warehouse after receiving a text message with the address. Banksy was in town, and in true clandestine fashion, the location of his show was a secret until just hours before it opened. I was impressed. I had never heard of Banksy, but his highly successful, clandestine, guerilla marketing intrigued me. I did a Google search on him and was even more impressed with the images of his ...more
When I lived in LA a few years ago, I went to a downtown warehouse after receiving a text message with the address. Banksy was in town, and in true clandestine fashion, the location of his show was a secret until just hours before it opened. I was impressed. I had never heard of Banksy, but his highly successful, clandestine, guerilla marketing intrigued me. I did a Google search on him and was even more impressed with the images of his ...more
Banksy is the most original artist (or potentially "artists"...) living today. Screw Matthew Barney's "Cremaster" 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 it's in book form (which I assume pisses him off to no end).
Anti-establishment, anti-consumer, anti-intelligencia, and pretty much any other "anti-fill-in-the-blank" you can throw at him, his works are unfathomably ...more
Anti-establishment, anti-consumer, anti-intelligencia, and pretty much any other "anti-fill-in-the-blank" you can throw at him, his works are unfathomably ...more
I love all things Banksy. His anarchy, his talent, his profound use of found space.
British graffiti, guerilla installation, etc. artist's book of documented works and quotes. It's great fun for anyone with a bit of an anarchist bent to their personality. Even if, for some reason, you strongly disapprove of graffiti, you gotta admit Banksy's stuff is pretty cool (I think you do anyway, but who am I to tell you what to think). He may be too well known and hip for his political message to be heard now, unfortunately... I'm not sure, but it's my sense that to a lot of folks once
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This is an art book, but here some of my favorite quotes:
"Despite what they say graffitti is not the lowest form of art...it's actually one of the more honest forms available.
A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Why would someone just paint pictures of a revolutionary when you can actually behave like one instead?
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.
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"Despite what they say graffitti is not the lowest form of art...it's actually one of the more honest forms available.
A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Why would someone just paint pictures of a revolutionary when you can actually behave like one instead?
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.
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This was a coffee table-esque book. It was primarily pictures of Banksy's pieces. Some I had seen before, some I hadn't.
Still, I love the work Banksy does and thoroughly enjoyed this book. I ended up reading it while sitting next to my Mom and she kept looking over my shoulder when I'd laugh or shake my head. It's one thing to show someone an image you like online it's another thing to show them a picture in a book and have them want to read it after you're done.
Update: Mom read and loved it =P
Still, I love the work Banksy does and thoroughly enjoyed this book. I ended up reading it while sitting next to my Mom and she kept looking over my shoulder when I'd laugh or shake my head. It's one thing to show someone an image you like online it's another thing to show them a picture in a book and have them want to read it after you're done.
Update: Mom read and loved it =P
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Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Banksy's work was born ...more
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Banksy's work was born ...more
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