Take a look at the cover of A Visual Fest by Rua Meegan & Lauren Teeling which just came out on the October 28, 2010.
The guys started taking photos of street art in Ireland a few years ago and developed a huge collections of images and finds. Perhaps only now, with the current political climate that people have started to create street art in a big way. (Banksy & Obey were in countries that the Iraq War was directly involved and so stenciling was more instant)
Here’s what New Space’s site has to say, an adorable artsy shop in Dublin’s city center that I recently discovered that seems to focus on graffiti and pop art, representing artists from countless places including Dublin itself.
“Its easy to make a book about international street art. TRESPASS: A History Of Uncommissioned Public Art by Wooster Collective is a great book but the scene in the US seems desperate to be gentrified and accepted. I feel that book is aimed at pushing street art away from its core of people just doing or making something and into the world of curators. It will allow the work of Jeffrey Deitch previously of Deitch Projects in New York and currently the director of the LA Museum of Contempory Art to promote large scale street art shows. But is that what the world needs. Already guys with spray cans can be found at every music festival and church fair (soon). As soon as a book or gallery show happens street art seems to haved moved and changed.
Ideally I hope the A Visual Fest book will have more in common with Stencil Graffiti by Tristan Manco. One of the first books on stencils that seemed to sow the seeds for so many artists. (I always thank Jenny Fox for giving it to me.) Only time will tell.”
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