Main entry:

McCormick, Carlo, author.

Title & Author:

Trespass : a history of uncommissioned urban art / edited by Ethel Seno ; by Carlo McCormick in collaboration with Wooster Collective's Marc & Sara Schiller ; additional texts by Banksy, Anne Pasternak, and J. Tony Serra.

Publication:

Köln : Taschen, [2010]
©2010

Description:

318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Preface : City view / Marc and Sara Schiller -- Introduction : Where angels dare to tread / Carlo McCormick -- Rules of the game -- Conquest of space -- Public memory / private secrets -- Deviant signs, free art, and contra-consumerism -- Environmental reclamations -- Magical thinking -- Non-figuratively speaking -- Urban folk -- Afterword : Just do it / Anne Pasternak -- Appendix : Graffiti and U.S. law / J. Tony Serra.

Summary:

A history of graffiti and unsanctioned street art explores its local origins and its transformation into a global phenomenon, discussing its outlaw status, key artists, and the spread of self-expression in social spaces.

ISBN:

9783836509640 (hbk.)
3836509644 (hbk.)

Subject:

Street art History.
Graffiti History.
Site-specific art History.
Art dans la rue Histoire.
Graffiti Histoire.
Œuvres in situ Histoire.
Art and Design.
Graffiti.
Site-specific art.
Street art.
Gatukonst historia.
Graffiti historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Seno, Ethel, editor.
Schiller, Marc, author.
Schiller, Sara, author.
Banksy, writer of supplementary textual material.
Pasternak, Anne, 1964- writer of supplementary textual material.
Serra, J. Tony, writer of supplementary textual material.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272367
Call No.: BIB 205664
Status: Available