Street craft : guerrilla gardening, yarnbombing, light graffiti, street sculpture, and more / Riikka Kuittinen
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, cop. 2015Description: 223 s. : colour illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780500517840 (inb.)
- Guerrilla gardening, yarnbombing, light graffiti, street sculpture, and more [Other title]
- 709.051 23
- Ibhc.6
- Ih.6
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Includes bibliographical references.
A common name -- Isaac Cordal -- Craftivist Collective -- Seth Czaplewski -- El Bocho -- Anna Garforth -- GorillaLighting -- Ishknits -- Mark Jenkins -- Knitorious M.E.G. -- Tasha Lewis -- Luzinterruptus -- Mademoiselle Maurice -- Mentalgassi -- Miss Cross Stitch -- Mosstika -- NeSpoon -- Olek -- The Pansy Project -- Darren Pearsen -- The Pothole Gardener -- R1 -- Magda Sayeg -- Secret Sculptor -- Slinkachu -- Spidertag -- Tejn -- WD.
"In the past decade, street art has transformed from a practice carried out by anonymous creators, seen by some as vandalism, into a commercial enterprise and a respectable part of the international art market. One of the richest movements in street art has been the development of an alternative, crafts-based, three-dimensional movement, broadly identified as Street Craft. This new generation of artists is creating uncommissioned, site-specific works employing a range of art and craft techniques, including weaving, crocheting, sculpting, painting, gardening, light installation, and more. Street Craft brings together twenty-eight different artists from different countries whose work has redefined what street art can be. By diversifying materials and techniques, Street Craft artists are pushing beyond the two-dimensionality of graffiti and mural-painting, many of them using craft techniques to bring inventive beauty to bland urban surroundings. Tasha Lewis's blue butterfly swarms decorate derelict corners of Indianapolis and New York, and Mademoiselle Maurice's origami and lace graffiti beautifies the streets of Paris and Hong Kong. Other artists create sophisticated urban interventions bearing their personal tags, such as the artist SpiderTag, who intertwines sturdy rope and nails to construct abstract graffiti in Madrid, and GorillaLighting, who haunts Berlin's industrial estates with impermanent projections. Each artist's profile includes project descriptions, artist statements, and a selection of photographs of their work: a document of the vibrant panorama of Street Craft, which, like the art form itself, engages with its audience in new and exciting ways"--Provided by publisher.