Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art

Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art by Walde, Claudia. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780500286685.

A worldwide survey of one of the biggest trends in street art: paper works of art glued to a citys surfaces. Classic graffiti lives. But this essential book reveals how street art is continually renewing itself and concludes with a look into the future. For some forty years, city streets have been home to the modern graffiti movement, and now there is a fresh creative twist. Walls, phone booths, curbs, traffic signs―in cities around the world public surfaces are adorned with hand-painted or hand-crafted posters and stickers. Claudia Walde, aka Mad C and herself a graffiti artist, traveled the globe from Philadelphia to Prague, Barcelona to Berlin, to meet the great names in street art and to find the creative custodians of the new sticker cities. More than eighty artists are represented, with images chosen from over 7,000 examples. Mad C first covers the scenes history, including Shepard Faireys Obey Giant propaganda campaign, Blek le Rats stencil graffiti, and Revss sensational sticker flood in New York City in the 1990s. Her documentation of the contemporary scene includes fascinating insights into the techniques used by todays artists: Swoon and her amazing cut-outs, Invaders ceramic mosaics, and Aboves wooden arrows. 317 illustrations, 308 in color