Euphorisierendes Scheitern, oder wieviel Ehrlichkeit kann man verantworten?

Das Buch von Robert Wilhelm „Euphorisierendes Scheitern, oder wieviel Ehrlichkeit kann man verantworten?“ gibt einen Einblick in sein künstlerisches Schaffen und zeigt einen Querschnitt seiner Werke ab Ende der 90er Jahre bis 2020. Bereits vor 20 Jahren entstanden seine abstrakten „SMURFNOBS“ Character. Das Buch zeigt auch einige ältere Train-Fotos, sowie Arbeiten auf Wand und Leinwand.

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Size: 24  x 21 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 162
Language: Deutsch
Year: 2020
Publisher: Robert Wilhelm
Author: Robert Wilhelm
ISBN/EAN: –

“The Sketch Issue” is a reproduction of the sketch book n.o.madski used for sketching while travelling from 2017 until now. “The sketch Issue” contains more than 290 typefaces designed by n.o.madski – nearly every style which he painted in the 3 last years. It comes with 104 pages, 17x24cm in format and softcover.

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Size: 17 x 24 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 104
Language: –
Year: 2020
Publisher: –
Author: N.O.Madski
ISBN/EAN: –

Graffiti writing was born in the streets of Philadelphia in the late 1960s. But it was in New York in the early 1970s that it became a full-fledged urban art, gradually taking over the landscape of the city, from its walls to its subway cars. In these years when this art form was emerging, graffiti pioneers laid its foundations through the constant game they played with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, which they distorted and highlighted in the tags that they painted on walls. In the first section of this book, Woshe recounts the incredible story of the birth of this culture. He then offers us a detailed examination of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, their structure and the ways in which graffiti writers have made them evolve. This study is enriched with a wealth of illustrations and examples of the customizations that artists add to their letters. At the end of the volume, ten of the international scene’s most talented graffiti creators answer Woshe’s questions about matters that include their practice, their relationship with letters and their cultural references. This is a writing manual, an inspiring collection of ideas and a beautiful book on the world of graffiti, but above all it is a declaration of love for this culture that mixes urban performance and mastery of letters.

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Size: 22,3 x 2,6 x 27,1 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Language: English
Year: 2019
Publisher: PROMOPRESS
Author: Woshe
ISBN/EAN: 978-84-17412-02-9

The Wall Writers companion hardbound book explores graffiti’s eruption into mainstream society in the period of social turmoil in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, and takes a closer look not only at early graffiti’s place on the wall but its place in the culture of the time. More comprehensive than any other book on the subject, Wall Writers explores not only early graffiti writing itself but the writers creating it, and the culture that drove them to write — be it a need to rebel against the government, to pass a message, or simply be recognized by society. Hundreds of images of everything from spray paint advertisements to commercial greeting cards to images of buildings completely covered in spray painted monikers are included, and reveal the context of the beginnings of a movement that would eventually grow to “transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over.” Includes interviews and profiles of some of the most prolific writers of the time, including TAKI 183, CORNBREAD, and dozens more.

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Size: 30,7 x 25,9 x 3,5 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Language: English
Year: 2016
Publisher: Dokument Press
Author: Roger Gastman, Trina Calderon, Caleb Neelon, Chris Pape
ISBN/EAN: 978-1-58423-601-6

Die hohe, altehrwürdige Kunst der Kalligrafie ist nun schon eine Weile in der Graffiti- und Street-Art-Szene angekommen und mit eben dieser verschmolzen. So wurde das Genre des Calligraffiti geboren und natürlich liefern wir euch ein umfangreiches Werk dazu: das The Art of Writing Your Name Buch.

Diese wunderschöne Kunst der Visualisierung des Wortes wird euch hier in Bild und Text von über 35 Künstlergrößen aus mehr als 3 Generationen und unzähligen Nationen nähergebracht. Darunter Artists wie Chaz Bojorquez, CRYPTIK oder JonOne. Einen wichtigen und großen Part hat auch der niederländische Künstler SHOE, der 2007 ein Calligraffiti-Projekt begann und mit riesengroßen Kalligrafie-Werken die Aufmerksamkeit auf dieses Subgenre zog.

Wie logisch doch eigentlich diese Verbindung ist, die Kunst des Schreibens (Kalligrafie) mit der modernen, zeitgenössischen Kunst seinen Namen zu schreiben (Graffiti) zu vereinen. Und natürlich bekommt ihr hier wieder viele unterschiedliche Styles anhand von hochauflösenden, perfekt geshooteten Fotos aufs Auge. Auch in puncto Hilfsmittel wurden hier keine Grenzen gesetzt und so ist vom Riesenpinsel bis zum handelsüblichen Besen alles erlaubt.

Ob Straße oder Galerie, Beton oder Leinwand – auch die Untergründe könnten kaum vielseitiger sein. Lasst euch inspirieren, kommt ins Staunen und taucht in die bunte, verzierte Welt der urbanen, neuzeitlichen Kalligrafie ein! Für alle Künstler und Liebhaber, die am Puls der Zeit bleiben wollen, ist dieses 288-seitige Buch ein absolutes Muss.

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Size: 24 x 30,5 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Language: English
Year: 2017
Publisher: Publikat
Author: Patrick Hartl & Christian Hundertmark
ISBN/EAN: 9783939566502

„The idea of style and competing for the best style is the key to all forms of rockin‘.“ – Style Wars, 1983.

Are subcultures, like graffiti, floating free in their own space, or are they connected to the rest of society? In Forms of Rockin’, graffiti styles for the first time are connected to graphic design and other popular culture expressions such as music, fashion, photography, industrial design and movies. Anssi Arte analyses some of the most powerful visual symbols of the 1970s, 80s and 90s and compares design, display typefaces and graffiti styles. The visual styles of James Brown, Blade Runner, the Memphis group and grunge music all appear together with classic fonts and graffiti writers.
The clear yet analytical narrative and carefully crafted visualizations make it appealing to both graphic design aficionados as well as graffiti enthusiasts. But Forms of Rockin’ is more than that. This is a must for everybody interested in contemporary popular culture and design history.

Forms of Rockin‘ traces and defines the stylistic conventions in graffiti letterforms that have become iconic and globally acknowledged ideals. From the early New York tags to the mid-1990s ugly-fresh styles of Scandinavia, Forms of Rockin’ tells the story of how popular culture and graffiti styles influences each other.

Anssi Arte (b. 1981) is a Helsinki-based graphic designer specialized in visual identities and brand architecture. He has a formal (MA) education in graphic design from the Aalto University of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Besides graphic design he is a graffiti enthusiast since childhood, specialized in studying and practising the traditional European and Scandinavian letterforms and aesthetics.

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Size: 22,5 x 21,5 x 1,8 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 125
Language: English
Year: 2015
Publisher: Dokument Press
Author: Anssi Arte
ISBN/EAN: 9789185639748