Customer Reviews

Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art

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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.

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.

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.

Because I bought Art of Rebellion 2 first, I was surprised to find that the first edition was much smaller than I expected. It's only about A5 size, soft cover compared to the hardback no.2. Go for two. it's much better.

It was well layed out, had good info, but wasn't that incredible. Stencil Pirates and Street Logos are way better books. Buy those before you buy this one. If you have a little cash to burn then buy this book.