Banksy

Banksy,

£29.95

The largest collection of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic, mysterious yet highly sought-after artist. Included here are the most iconic works but also installation objects, ephemera, and memorabilia published to coincide with a major travelling exhibition containing over 100 pieces that opens at New York’s The New Museum in May 2022 and is expected to travel to several other North American venues.

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Publish Date: 03/06/2022

Description

This monograph gathers and presents the largest assemblage in one volume about the life, work, and ideas of Banksy – the world’s most discussed artist of recent decades. Featuring hundreds of works – Girl with Balloon, Mickey Snake, Dismaland, Love is in the Air, Barcode, Monkey Queen — the book includes reproductions of paintings, serigraphs, and stencils. The most iconic works are here, but so too are numerous installation objects and a selection of memorabilia all with the official approval of Pest Control, the group that manages all things Banksy.

Banksy is considered the world’s greatest practitioner of street art at work today. His work has always implied political critiques – of inequality, injustice, discrimination, consumerism, pollution, and the establishment. But, Banksy is a ghost — no one knows his identity. He is an exemplary case of fame and notoriety built upon absence, anonymity, and the denial of one’s explicit contribution to the public debate if not in terms of creative activism.

Banksy’s relationship with the art market is also complex: at the same time mocking, distant, and hostile and yet all he does is based upon a marketing logic that has proven to be among the most effective ever attempted. In short, an apparent (or real) contradiction between adhesion to the market and ferocious criticism of the market itself.

This volume is published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition of over one hundred Banksy works, but it is sure to be a must have for art lovers and Banksy fans alike for years to come.

Additional information

Weight 1706 g
Dimensions 279 × 254 × 24 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

240

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

759.2 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K