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Larry Yust - The Beautiful Walls. Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris.  - 9780977834440 - V9780977834440
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The Beautiful Walls. Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris.

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Description for The Beautiful Walls. Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris. Hardcover. Celebrates the artistry and audacity of the taggers and un-commissioned muralists who decorate and deface contemporary cities Num Pages: 100 pages, 90 color illus., including 40 color gate-fold images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 1KBBWF; AFJG; AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 328 x 187 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1122.

Graffiti is a forceful way of inscribing presence or "being" in the world as well as a means of creating affective links to the potency of natural wonders, religious shrines, and ancient ruins as well as the contemporary cityscape. The photographic elevations presented in this volume represent a graffiti-punctuated pilgrim's progress built around the aesthetics of defacement. Graffiti- and mural-covered walls, buildings, automobiles, and railcars are the artful wonders, the vibrant shrines, and the dynamic ruins that structured Larry Yust's pilgrimage to some of the most famed metropolitan centers of the world. He has brought back panoramic souvenirs; vistas that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780977834440
SKU
V9780977834440
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12

Reviews for The Beautiful Walls. Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris.
"This book's wide pages unfold to reveal multi-book views of densely painted and wheat-pasted surfaces. Yust's short statements accompany each image to tell the story of discovering graffiti."
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