Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art [Paperback]

Christian Hundertmark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2005

Street art has taken over the world in recent years. Cities have been "liberated" by artists who are as motivated by the drive to invent new forms of media as they are to create new images. Art of Rebellion features the broadest possible variety of street art including flyers, stickers, spraycan and stencil art, and a host of interesting hybrids that fall somewhere in between. Provocateurs such as Space Invader, Above, Lefunk, Milk, Fume, Hoernchen and East Eric use an amazing variety of techniques to create their own individual iconography in projects as crazy as bathrooms painted gold, battle tanks painted pink and cities plastered with pictures of toasters. The ultimate collection of worldwide street art this remarkable book leaves absolutely nothing sacred.

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About the Author

Christian Hundertmark (C100) started graffiti in 89 turned to streetart in 2000. He is founder of Munich based design studio C100, working for various clients in the sports and music industry (Forum Snowboards, Burton snowboards, North Kiteboarding, Universal records).

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Gingko Press (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584232099
• ISBN-13: 978-1584232094
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great art smashed on page, May 5, 2004

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Derrick V Schultz (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art (Hardcover)

This is the best book on Street Art and individual artists available, hands down. Way too many boks on the subject try and turn it into a gallery exhibit, but c-100 shows the pieces just as they should be: in their natural, urban setting.

With that said, this book is horribly laid out, designed, and edited. I think every page of text has some typo error in it, and the overall design is just very cluttered and hard to follow. The text, especially the artist interviews are often illegible, which is a shame because they have good information. ANd overall, the images are smashed 10-16 a page. i really wish someone would have stepped in and edited it.

As a graphic designer, I love the subject matter and the concept, but I cant stand seeing someting so interesting be so poorly handled.

Buy it to look at the awesome (albeit small-sized) art, just dont try and read the text.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Street Art Jewel, June 8, 2005

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Christl "squidset2" (SF, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art (Paperback)

Art of Rebellion is a rad little book. It doesn't set out to be the encyclopedia of Street Art, but is more like a best of the best in terms of the new forms. As an extra bonus, the "bellyband" made out of stickers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great subject matter poorly handled, August 12, 2006

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andrei (milwaukee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art (Paperback)

The name of the book reflects the content well, it's not a "graffiti" book. C-100 covers a lot of artists and styles but unfortunately all images are very small (but good and high-quality) and there is no text at all. I think this book should be more than just an image gallery. There is a little survey, which some of the artists included in the book had to fill out, but most of them just make fun of it missing the great opportunity to introduce themselves to the world, well, maybe they just don't need it, it's a street art anyway.