- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions; First Edition edition (22 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861541422
- ISBN-13: 978-1861541420
- Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 24 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 700,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As the end of the 20th century approaches and a solution to the Y2K conundrum remains elusive, a bunch a dissatisfied image-makers are busy defying the all-encompassing power of the computer. A new generation of artists has come up from the streets, chopped the computer down to size and reconfigured the hand-made. This work provides an international survey of this phenomenon. Inhabiting a genre grey-area somewhere between art, design and illegality, these image-makers and "writers" operate beyond the colleges and galleries of the art establishment. Able to tenaciously exploit the media, they've also gone beyond any previous expectations of anonymous street art. The tradition of graffiti writing, with its notions of youthful rebellion, outsider identity, urban tribalism and aesthetic and technical innovation, was their starting point. The street, the rejeuvenation of comic book artistry and the stylistics, cut-up vocals and rhythms of hip-hop and beat-based music are their inspiration. The music, fashion and marketing industries, along with community-based arts funding, enable these young and mobile individuals to lead double lives. This is a process-led visual revolution, as aplicable to commercial projects on an international scale as it is to self-initiated personal work. One day may be spent painting a stage backdrop in Tokyo; the next, designing a record sleeve in London.
From the Author
hope everyone likes the book watch out for scrawl 2
hey ric blackshaw here, i would have done this ages ago if i'd known about it. not surprising though i am one of the last luddites.
hey ric blackshaw here, i would have done this ages ago if i'd known about it. not surprising though i am one of the last luddites.
i hope everyone who has parted with their hard earned, has felt well rewarded for their purchase, the point is generally to inspire and show that anyone can do anything if they remain comitted to the original spark that sets them on their journey. the art in this book is not so much a big up for grafitti in itself but a vision of what it might and is becoming. i've only had positive vibes from people and i'm constantly blown away by the talent out there on the streets and in countless teenage bedrooms. the scenes stregnth comes from fact that for the most part it's a scene where the guys that make it don't pull the ladder up but offer support and advice to the ones just starting out. a very rare thing these days long may it continue.
look out for scrawl 2 this summer, this follow up will cover alot more of the globe than the first book including japan, usa, australia, a wider european vibe and up dates of a few artists from the first book. it will again be a healthy mix of the well established and the young pretenders.
till then all the george. ric
p.s apologies for typo's and the rambling nature of my note, it appears i'm completely cabbaged. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
if you dont like this book, you aren't alive,
By A Customer
This review is from: Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters (Paperback)
In many subcultures Graffiti plays a pretty major part and this book documents its progression from being a kind of inner city folk art through to its infiltration of the graphics industry.Featuring work from well known artists such as Futura and work from not so well known artists, this book is extremely inspiring and you will not be dissapointed.The work featured will soon be imprinted on your memory as it is extremely vibrant and unforgetable.If you like this book you can not go far wrong by taking a look at the graffiti bibles, 'Subway Art' and 'Spraycan Art' both by Henry Chalfant, they are a testament to some of the greatest pieces ever done, most of which dont exist any more.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Hip hop ART,
By A Customer
This review is from: Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters (Paperback)
I am not good at writing reviews but i just have to recomend this book. If you are a fan of graphiti or if you like the Hip-hop style of illustration then u'll love this. These dudes mostly had a background in graphitti, and then went on to get comissions working on album covers etc. This is the best book on modern graphics i have found, and i have looked everywhere. i am doing a degree in graphics and everyone ive shown it to is calling it their bible allready. I would call it the trip-hop of graphics. It has given me direction as a designer, every time they ask me, "so lumiere, which designers do you admire" i was thinking the guy who did the dj shadow album cover. And they was like who. Well know thanks to this book i know what im taling about. The many styles you can find within this book are pretty cohesive coz they all have a feel of street art, but its got plenty of variety, from raw graphitti, to mac work. It offers more than any average graphitti book, coz it shows the whole beauty of graphitti and what it has resulted in, with its influence on modern graphics. You can see how these artists were painting the streets so someone would notice them, and its nice to see all the critics were wrong. This book is raw, i would call it "impactism". Because this is sheer visual impact, this is a rare book that will impress anybody you show, put it on your coffee table if you have one.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Our diary,
By A Customer
This review is from: Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters (Paperback)
You will fall in one of the two catagories of people when you pick this book up. The first catagory of people will say,'Oh, I've got that record, its great, been to that club, going to go go to that club, listens to HIS music, really like that, heard that was really good...'etc. And the other catagory who would not know but wish they did. 'Scrawl' is a collection of artworks mostly by the leading expointents of the new british music scene, or close accociates of them. A fine collection of works by artists not constrained by the limits set by the big record companies, their producers and their marketing study groups. They test the boundries of graphic design which shows a real understanding of the music they are promoting and packaging, not lest because they are sometimes the one and same people; and the level of expression gives the whole package, be it a record or a club, an expremely high level of coherency. The record doesnt just stop at the music itself but extends it to represent a whole lifestyle. 'Street inspired artists' to quote the book blurb, and we get to see a clear trian of thought of artists from their graffiti to a record sleeve all together which makes this an even more interesting book. The heavy inclusion of record sleeves, club flyers, promotional material from the likes of Ninja tune and other usual suspects makes this also an interesting snapshot of the dance youth culture, to use a cliche, at the end of this millenium. The book could benifet on a more fleshed out discussion beyond the one paragrah soundbytes form each individual artists. If it was about words and letters, an intellegent discussion or commisioned essays would go amiss. A fine and beautiful book nethertheless, and I look forward to a sequel in a decade or so.
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