Description
Guerrilla Gardening / Yarnbombing / Light Graffiti Street Sculpture / and More
Riikka Kuittinen is a freelance curator and writer. A contributing writer to the online journal Photomonitor, she curated the V&A show ‘Street Art: Contemporary Prints’ (2010-12), which toured the UK, with a version shown in Libya. She is the author of Street Art: Contemporary Prints, and contributed to Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Modernism 1914-1939: Designing a New World and 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.
Description
Surprising, controversial and often simply beautiful, street craft is the next chapter in the story of street art – an explosion of creativity that is reclaiming and transforming urban space around the world.
Featuring:
• Tasha Lewis’s blue butterfly swarms bring beauty to derelict corners of New York.
• Spidertag intertwines sturdy rope and nails to construct abstract graffiti in Madrid.
• Mademoiselle Maurice’s origami and lace graffiti bring a light touch to the streets of Paris and Hong Kong and many more.
• 224 Pages
• Hardcover
