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Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War | 
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| Author: Xavier A. Tapies
Creator: Eleanor Mathieson
Publisher: Korero Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 231668
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 095533988X
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.73
EAN: 9780955339882
ASIN: 095533988X
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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Product Description
Bringing together a stunning array of antiwar, anti-Bush, and anti-Blair graffiti from the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Japan, and Australia, this gritty, controversial collection captures many unique images which have survived only a few hours between execution and clean-up. Including a chronology of opposition to the war organized by continent, and commentaries by the graffiti artists themselves, this work constitutes an essential record of political opposition since 9/11. Every major city is featured, including London, New York City, Paris, Tokyo, Milan, Baghdad, Tehran, Berlin, Munich, Marseilles, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, and more.
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 Flojo y facilon September 21, 2008
"Arte callejero y la guerra contra el terror" es el titulo de un libro que recopila muestras globales de arte callejero durante la administracion Bush en Estados Unidos y criticas con sus politicas. Tras el subtitulo "como los mejores artistas del graffiti dijeron no a la guerra en Iraq" ofrece tanto una muestra interesante como algunas lagunas en su planteamiento.
En el libro estoy involucrado como autor con las cuatro imagenes que he donado de Washington DC. Y mientras me siento agradecido cada vez que tengo la oportunidad de diversificar las representaciones de esta ciudad y ofrecer algo de su lectura mas compleja y distante, también es cierto que son muchos los que buscan perspectivas comunes tanto en su documentacion de la ciudad como en sus intervenciones artisticas. En realidad es una sorpresa halagadora pero incomoda que DC solo haya sido representado a través de mis fotos.
En muchos casos agrupar a todas las muestras bajo una protesta directa contra la llamada "guerra contra el terror" y la guerra y ocupacion de Iraq se convierte en un grueso ejercicio de generalizacion. Un ejercicio que esconde matices obvios y no tan obvios, como el ramillete de protestas que estan mas relacionadas con sentimientos anticapitalistas, aspectos de la cultura estadounidense, o criticas a la idiosincrasia contemporanea, que relacionada explicitamente con el vigente gobierno estadounidense. Del mismo modo, los textos parecen no estar escritos en relacion con los autores de las obras, ni en relacion con los autores de la accion como los de la fotografia en si. Esto genera asi un texto genérico, a menudo gratuito que responde a la reflexion personal de Xavier Tapies, editor al cargo de ese aspecto. Son comentarios que buscan a menudo ilustrar imagenes que no lo necesitan y peor aún muchas son las conclusiones sobre lo representado que no se corresponden con el contexto local. Es asi en buena medida en las imagenes de Washington y en ese sentido anadiria doble valor la idea de ofrecer la imagen sin narrativa ajena en lugar de generar un relleno forzado.
Mas: http://daquellamanera.org/?q=node/337
 Pesimo March 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nada que no se vea en Internet, realmente esperaba algo de analisis, historia, cronica y contexto. Pero noe s mas que imagenes que bien se pueden sacar de Flickr.
Great book on Public Art February 8, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
As an Art teacher, I feel that this book is great for looking at images of public art. This book shows that art is happening everywhere in many different forms and artists can make their voices heard. The artists chosen for this book are some of the best artists of the street art/public art movement currently going on.
 Shipped in timely manner January 7, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
We found this book at the Tate Modern in London, and loved it. It's fascinating. However, with the currency exchange rate these days, it was much cheaper to find it in the states. This book was a Christmas gift for our family, and was shipped in good condition and in a timely manner. High marks!
not impressed January 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The collection of art in the book isn't bad, but the way it is presented and the captions accompanying the works leave a lot to be desired. I am not a Bush supporter, but i don't want to have a graffiti of a monkey likened to Bush without any evidence that the artist had that idea in mind. The captions are extremely anti-Bush and one dimensional; everything is about the illegal war in Iraq, the Bush war machine, or the Bush-Blair collaboration. I am a liberal, but anything this one sides invokes in me a desire to play devils advocate. Not an altogether well thought out or significant consideration of the art, but again, the art is good. And to be fair, -some- of the artists were "saying" exactly what the makers of this book wanted them to be saying.
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