Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists
I can honestly tell you I was never a fan of graffiti, like any art-form there is good art and there is bad art. Now graffiti falls into that category also. I would not be a happy camper to be the recipient of scribbled lettering on my building. However, walking and driving upon my fair city I came across some interesting pieces of art on buildings that were given free reign by the owner of edifice. Then as I travel through the hi-way, there are many fly by night spray painters who scrawl etchings of distorted lettering that make no sense. As you comb through the cities in most North American cosmopolitans you will find some interesting pieces of art as collected by the latest book from Chronicle Books about the art and the culprits, I mean artists. You will find something of interest for all, just make sure your local city counsellors or authorities don’t get a copy, maybe they’ll book some of the delinquents of the fringe arts.
With interest in graffiti and street art at a record high, the time is ripe for the first-ever volume to reveal the working methods and private fixations of more than 60 leading international street artists through their personal sketchbooks. Artists’ sketchbooks offer exclusive access into the creative process their dog-eared, paint-splattered, sometimes crumbling pages have an intimate and visceral appeal. Street Sketchbook includes never-before-seen works by new and acclaimed figures such as Banksy (UK), Alexander Purdy (US), and more, as well as sketches that have formed the basis of large public works. Ingenious throughout, these sketchbooks epitomize the audacious originality of vision that defines the street art scene today.
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