Books Details
Author : Tristan Manco Pages : 288 pages Publisher : Thames Hudson
Language : ISBN-10 : 0500022852 ISBN-13 : 9780500022856
Books Descriptions
With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more
uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are
using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-
provoking messages and ideas. Exploring the medium?s applications within
grassroots activism and the contemporary craft scene, Tristan Manco
returns to the streets and brings this thriving art form to life.Exploring
both process and results, this book delves into stencil art?s essential
elements?place, space, technique, and subjects?before taking to the
streets to see how, where, and why stencil graffiti is exhibited. Having
accumulated an extensive network of street art contacts through more
than two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe
for today?s most interesting stencil artists?those who operate outside
the mainstream market of ?urban art? and beneath the radar of everyone
but the truly aware.Featuring studio visits with artists and
