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Street craft

guerrilla gardening, yarnbombing, light graffiti, street sculpture, and more
Author: Search for this author Kuittinen, Riikka (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Riikka Kuittinen
Year: 2015
Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson
Media group: Buch
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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
 
n 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.

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Author: Search for this author Kuittinen, Riikka (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Riikka Kuittinen
Year: 2015
Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson
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Classification: Search for this systematic 751.73, 709.051, 1270642111 LH 70220, 1393804845 LH 78968
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ISBN: 0-500-51784-3
ISBN (2nd): 978-0-500-51784-0
Description: 223 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Tags: Streetart
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Language: Englisch
Media group: Buch