Trespass : A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
by McCormick, CarloFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-10-01
Publisher(s): Taschen America Llc
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Summary
Made in collaboration with featured artists, "Trespass" examines the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events, and movements of self-expression in the city's social space, and the history of urban reclamation, protest, and illicit performance.
Author Biography
About the author:
Carlo McCormick is a pop culture critic, curator and Senior Editor of Paper magazine. His numerous books, monographs and catalogs include Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, and Dondi White: Style Master General. His work has appeared in Art in America, Art News, Artforum and many other publications.
About the curator:
Marc and Sara Schiller founded Wooster Collective in 2001, a website that celebrates and plays a crucial role in documenting otherwise ephemeral street art. Based in New York City, the collective curated most of the contemporary images in Trespass. Its "Wooster On Paper" series presents the work of international artists in limited edition books.
About the editor:
Ethel Seno received her BA in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University before teaming with TASCHEN, where she worked with William Claxton on Jazzlife and New Orleans 1960, and David LaChapelle on Artists & Prostitutes and Heaven to Hell. Having grown up in Tokyo, she feels most at home in urban environments and currently resides in Los Angeles.
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