Author: Scott Hocking
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781907317828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Get Book Here

Book Description
A collection of photographs by artist Scott Hocking of the 'bad', often humourous graffiti seen in urban areas. As such graffiti is mostly on sites that are derelict or in a state of disrepair, Hocking's work documents the depressing appearance of buildings tarnished by urban decay and abandonment rather than mocking the artists.

Author: Adam Elliott
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091948622
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Get Book Here

Book Description
"Welcome to the strange world of anonymous anarchists, toilet wall Tourette's and the mysterious rants of unidentified luntics. It's not big and it's not clever. But we defy you not to snigger all the same ..."--Publisher description.

Author: Joseph J. Depre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615461229
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Claudia Walde
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Get Book Here

Book Description
A documentary record and critique of hand-painted or crafted stickers and posters that are part of a subset of graffiti known as adhesive art.

Author: Erin Davis
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575673932
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Get Book Here

Book Description
Our culture is driven by a concept of beauty that negatively impacts adolescent girls. The Scriptures are full of assurances regarding our identity in Christ, inherent worth to the Creator, and the secrets to tapping into the source of true and lasting beauty, yet girls and young women continue to struggle with their focus on outer beauty. In Graffiti: Learning to See the Art in Ourselves, Erin Davis applies the language of God's Word on identity, beauty, and worth to the life of a contemporary young woman. In fact, women who have never adequately dealt with this issue will find themselves reviewing their youth, and redirecting their spiritual eyes.

Author: Ben Orlin
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316509027
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 556

Get Book Here

Book Description
A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define the usually impenetrable work of the mathematician. Truth and knowledge come in multiple forms: colorful drawings, encouraging jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, how to understand an economic crises by rolling a pair of dice, and the mathematical headache that ensues when attempting to build a spherical Death Star. Every discussion in the book is illustrated with Orlin's trademark "bad drawings," which convey his message and insights with perfect pitch and clarity. With 24 chapters covering topics from the electoral college to human genetics to the reasons not to trust statistics, Math with Bad Drawings is a life-changing book for the math-estranged and math-enamored alike.

Author: Romal J. Tune
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780817017330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
It is easy to recognize the characteristics of at-risk youth--especially, if, like Romal Tune, you were one of them. Rev. Tune offers inspiration and motivation by connecting his story with those of at-risk youth in the Bible who discovered God's graffiti written all over their own lives.

Author: Roger Gastman
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Get Book Here

Book Description
As dazzling as the art it celebrates, this volume is packed with 1,000 full-color illustrations and features in-depth interviews with more than 125 train artists and "writers" to provide unprecedented perspective into graffiti.

Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292757638
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Get Book Here

Book Description
“What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror,” asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, the murdered women of Juárez, the Salem witches, and Chicana lesbian feminists, Gaspar de Alba realized that what links these historically and socially diverse figures is that they all fall into the category of “bad women,” as defined by their place, culture, and time, and all have been punished as well as remembered for rebelling against the “frames” imposed on them by capitalist patriarchal discourses. In [Un]Framing the “Bad Woman,” Gaspar de Alba revisits and expands several of her published articles and presents three new essays to analyze how specific brown/female bodies have been framed by racial, social, cultural, sexual, national/regional, historical, and religious discourses of identity—as well as how Chicanas can be liberated from these frames. Employing interdisciplinary methodologies of activist scholarship that draw from art, literature, history, politics, popular culture, and feminist theory, she shows how the “bad women” who interest her are transgressive bodies that refuse to cooperate with patriarchal dictates about what constitutes a “good woman” and that queer/alter the male-centric and heteronormative history, politics, and consciousness of Chicano/Mexicano culture. By “unframing” these bad women and rewriting their stories within a revolutionary frame, Gaspar de Alba offers her compañeras and fellow luchadoras empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.

Author: Tyson Mitman
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
ISBN: 9781783208982
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social capital, and gain a voice within an urban environment that would prefer they remain quiet, passive, and anonymous. In order to both demystify and complicate our understanding of the practice of graffiti writing, this book pushes past the narrative that links the origins of graffiti to criminal gangs and instead offers a detailed portrait of graffiti as a rich urban culture with its own rules and practices. To do so, it examines the cultural history of graffiti in Philadelphia from the early 1970s onward and explores what it is like to be a graffiti writer in the city today. Ultimately, Tyson Mitman aims to humanize graffiti writers and to show that what they do is not merely destructive or puerile, but, rather, adds something important to the urban experience that is a conscious and deliberate act on the part of its practitioners.