Banksy has gone from underground graffiti artist to main line ape artist in the matter of a short few years but how much do you actually know about Banksy and do you know Banksy books written about his art and it’s many locations and guises?
Wall & Piece
Inventive genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except may be when it’s squatting in the Tate or Big Apple’s metropolitan Museum. Banksy is in charge of decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites everywhere. Smart and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass elimination, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. If you look hard enough youwill find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns perceptive and impertinent comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the struggle in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is bountiful. And now for the first time, he’s's putting together the best of his work new and old in an entirely illustrated color volume.
Banksy Locations and Tours: Revised and Updated for 2008: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London
A Collection of Graffiti Locations & footage in London, essentially of Banksy’s street work
- 3 Banksy tours in London
- 65 Detailed Graffiti Locations
- Over 100 Colour photos
- Also including graffiti by Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le Rat, D*face, and Shepard Fairey / Obey.
Do you want wandering the streets of London looking for graffiti, especially that from Banksy? Or do you like just sitting at home in your comfortable chair, looking at pictures of his street work and reading a bit about them?
This unique, 100% unofficial, book lets you do either and is reliant on the free tours and location info that Martin Bull researched and offered to the public. Follow Martin’s street tours or make your own DIY tour. Collect all of the locations like a geek or just wander around, stop at the assorted quirky local attractions and explore parts of London you may never have visited before. Or merely flick thru the book whilst on the can.
Banksy’s Bristol : Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is a celebrating of Banksy’s street art in his home city of Bristol. This book places him in the area of 3D, John country from the Barton Hill Settlement, Inkie, Nick walker and the other artists and musicians who played an important role in linking Bristol to the original NY hip-hop scene. Itis the most revealing account of Banksy’s early years and contains more than 100 pictures of his Bristol art, as well as pictures of Banksy at work, plenty of which haven’t ever been printed|broadcast|published} before. Steve Wright, location mag’s Art Editor, traces Banksy’s roots back to the rave culture of the Nineties and draws a rounded picture of an artist who is most renowned for being unnamed.
