Street Craft

Guerrilla Gardening / Yarnbombing / Light Graffiti Street Sculpture / and More

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A zippy and compact introduction to Street Craft, from guerrilla gardening to urban crochet

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.

Extent: 224 pp
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Illustrations: 250
Publication date: 2015-02-02
Size: 22.0 x 17.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500517840
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).

Press Reviews

Frequently thought-provoking, often funny, and at all times non-threatening
GQ

Political, pretty, provocative
Simple Things



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.

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