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Street Craft
Guerrilla Gardening / Yarnbombing / Light Graffiti Street Sculpture / and More
Riikka Kuittinen
£14.95
A zippy and compact introduction to Street Craft, from guerrilla gardening to urban crochet
See InsideOverview
Surprising, controversial and often simply beautiful, street craft is the next chapter in the story of street art - an explosion of creativity that is reclaiming and transforming urban space around the world.
Featuring:
• Tasha Lewis’s blue butterfly swarms bring beauty to derelict corners of New York.
• Spidertag intertwines sturdy rope and nails to construct abstract graffiti in Madrid.
• Mademoiselle Maurice’s origami and lace graffiti bring a light touch to the streets of Paris and Hong Kong and many more.
Reviews
'Frequently thought-provoking, often funny, and at all times non-threatening'
GQ
'Political, pretty, provocative'
Simple Things
Product Information
Book Details
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Size: 22.0 x 17.5 cm
Extent: 224 pp
Illustrations: 250
Publication date: 2 February 2015
ISBN: 9780500517840
Contents List
Introduction • A Common Name (United States) • Isaac Cordal (Spain) • Craftivist Collective (UK)• Seth Czaplewski (USA) • El Bocho (Germany) • Anna Garforth (UK) • GorillaLighting (Germany) • Ishknits (USA) • Mark Jenkins (USA) • Knitorious M.E.G. (USA) • Tasha Lewis (USA) • Luzinterruptus (Spain) • Mademoiselle Maurice (France) • Mentalgassi (Germany) • Miss Cross Stitch (Germany) • Mosstika (USA) • NeSpoon (Poland) • Olek (USA) • Pansy Project (UK) • Darren Pearson (USA) • The Pothole Gardener (UK) • R1 (South Africa) • Magda Sayeg (USA) • Secret Sculptor (UK) • Slinkachu (UK) • Spidertag (Spain) • Tejn (Denmark) • WD (Greece).
About the Author
Riikka Kuittinen is a freelance curator and writer. A contributing writer to the online journal Photomonitor, she curated the V&A show ‘Street Art: Contemporary Prints’ (2010–12), which toured the UK, with a version shown in Libya. She is the author of Street Art: Contemporary Prints, and contributed to Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Modernism 1914–1939: Designing a New World and 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.
