WHO SHOT ROCK AND ROLL
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Blauuuuw! Rock n’ Roll has been shot!
Heavy hitters like Ricky Powell, Chris Stein, and Dennis Hopper are all vital accomplices in murdering Rock and Roll photography! Shooting some of the most controversial, sexy, grungy, and memorable moments in music history. — Read More —>
Piecebook – Reloaded!! / Sacha Jenkins and David ‘Chino’ Villorente
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The long awaited sequel to the prequel! This book is not to be confused [and really is hard to confuse] with other books that are in circulation out there.
All new and collected works from Graff’s past in this one. From Graff bombers to the cultures underground elite, this books got it all. — Read More —>
::Matrha Cooper / Tag Town::
Graffiti has spread to the far corners of the earth and in the process has become the biggest art movement in history and every graffiti writer began his or her writing career with a tag. Developing an original, consistently written name is the primary act for a writer. The photos in Tag Town, dating back to the 60’s, introduce us to the origins of New York style graffiti. Tags and pieces share a common heritage and by understanding one, you can understand the other. For those who learn to read tags, a world of aesthetic expression and communication opens up. Tags are a universal language – the jazz of lettering. Tag Town also contains rare photos of work on the street by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, artists whose tag-inspired work helped found the rapidly growing street art movement. The accompanying text is based on interviews with New York graffiti pioneers Blade, Part 1 and Snake 1. Martha Cooper has specialized in photographing urban art and architecture in New York City for thirty years.
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Design News – Tate Presents: Street Art – The Graffiti Revolution New Book Release – TAXI Design Network
Street art is a global phenomenon, one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art-making on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti tradition of the 1980s it has now reached the mainstream through the work of artists like Banksy and Futura 2000, becoming the subject of best-selling books and commanding high prices at auction.
Cedar Lewisohn has written the first account of this visual revolution to trace its history from cave painting through to the vibrant art emerging today on the walls of London, Madrid and Sao Paolo, via Brassai’s photographs of 1920s Paris and Basquiat and Haring’s New York.
Superbly illustrated with over 120 colour photographs of street art from around the world, the book includes interviews with leading street art proponents of the last three decades, including Henry Chalfant, Lady Pink, Lee Quinones, Blek le Rat, Goldie, Mode 2, Barry McGee (Twist), Shephard Fairey (Obey), Futura 2000, Malcolm McClaren and Os Gemeos, taking the reader behind their “tags” to encounter the often mysterious figures who are transforming cities across the globe.
Tags: graffiti, graff, graffmuseum, sast, saster, STREETS ARE SAYING THINGS, street art, art, book, Tate, Museum, culture
::Hip-hop Jew::
‘The End of the Jews, rather than being any kind of definitive end, [is really more] an end to an identity that is uncritical, that fits easily,” says Adam Mansbach of the title of his new book. “It stems from the uneasiness and the struggle of finding some way to inhabit either Judaism or family or artistry or any of these.”
Mansbach, 31, speaking to The Jerusalem Post by phone following the book’s release, describes his Jewish upbringing in Boston as secular, without much of a connection to traditional Judaism. He recounts how he dropped out of Hebrew school before his bar mitzva after a confrontation with a vocally racist teacher, and how he moved naturally toward the hip-hop scene.
“I grew up as a rapper and a DJ and graffiti writer and was very much involved in hip-hop culture, and my politics were largely formed through those experiences,” he says. Like several of his characters, he was a jazz roadie for a number of years, traveling all over the US with a jazz band.
“I had more black friends than white,” he says, adding that his family “didn’t really have a problem [with me] listening to hip-hop, particularly since I think they understood that it made me want to educate myself. They understood the connection between me listening to a Public Enemy song and then me going to my father’s bookshelf.”
Read more here…….Hip-hop Jew | Jerusalem Post
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