Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution

Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution by Lewisohn, Cedar. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780810983205.

Over the last decade, street art—art made in public spaces including graffiti, stickers, stencil art, and wheat-pasting— has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti-writing tradition of the 1980s through the work of artists such as Banksy and Futura 2000, it has long since reached the mainstream. Street Art is the first measured, critical account of the development of this global phenomenon. Tracing street art€™s origins in cave painting through the Paris walls photographed by Brassai