Scrawl Too: More Dirt - Softcover

Richard Blackshaw; Liz Farrelly

3.9

10 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861542135 ISBN 13: 9781861542137

Publisher: Booth-Clibborn, 2001

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This is public art, 21st century style. Whether working on sleeves, 'zines, walls or canvas, these street-inspired artists talk their own language mixing media, metaphor, technologies and techniques. Using spray cans, brushes, stencils, xerox machines, collage, computers, video and film to create an intense mix of raw/slick, humour/horror, cute/cruel imagery, this is a visual equivalent of contemporary music and its complexity.
Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters was the first survey of this phenomenon. The tradition of graffiti, with its notions of youthful rebellion, outsider identity, urban tribalism, aesthetic and technical innovation, was the starting point. The street, the rejuvenation of comic-book artistry and the style, the rhythms of hip-hop and beat-based music, is its inspiration. Since then, this process-led visual revolution has spread to become truly international. Scrawl Too showcases work worldwide and looks at the different schools that are establishing their own dynamic creative identity.

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Over the last 10 years the line between culture and counterculture has turned into a zone, and that zone is graf, shorthand for a subculture that produces graffiti, art, fashion, and design. Scrawl Too: More Dirt is a rich collection, maybe even a sourcebook, of all of these manifestations, marked by strong lines, active forms, architectural presentations, and small but numerous interventions that have coalesced into an entire young urban aesthetic. While the more familiar graf may have been absorbed into commerce to the point that it is unmoving (such as the Obey stencils from New York), the work from Japan and Australia is stunning, and there is more of it here than in the book's predecessor. The images are lush and compelling in themselves, but they are equally significant in their selection. --Juliette Cezzar

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