Spraycan Art

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Summary: "Spraycan Art"...is a must for any collection!....
Review: Spraycan Art is a book for any collection! This book shows the artistic side of graffiti art through the lens of a camera...rare graf photos from all over! a great book.

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Summary: Lots of images, worth text
Review: The book focus in a bit of the Graffiti history on USA (with just a few pics from outside the country), sometimes very focused on one scene or another, but even then it's very worth. It shows the individuals who made the arts depicted in the books, some of their history, has lots of quotes and interpretations from the scene, and, fortunatelly, has so many pictures that there isn't a huge load of text to blur the pleasure you have reading (viewing) the book. A very nice piece of paper.

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Summary: Excellent, great content and magnificent photography.
Review: The book was well written and is a must for any Graffiti artist. The history of Graffiti is fascinating. Great book.

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Summary: Piss-Poor attempt
Review: The graffiti tradition is acknowledged beyond New York and the first place listed beyond the boroughs is Philadelphia, where the movement was born. The pioneers (CORNBREAD, COOL EARL, etc..) are not even mentioned let alone highlighted, rather the new jacks of the later 80's some of which catch undeserved credit. No disrespect, but even if you are going to look at Philly in the 80's----where is ESTRO, CREDIT, MR. BLINT, RAZZ, CLYDE, SUROC, MB, HAWKSKI? Where they not up? Where they not defining graff in Philadelphia in the 1980's, before STYLE WARS, WILD STYLE, SUBWAY ART were even available to the public? SPRAY CAN ART is just another typical case of graffiti history revisionism.

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Summary: Essential to Graffiti
Review: This book did more unifying and legitimizing for graffiti than any other. The vision, depth, and fairness all point to honest journalism. This is an excellent springboard for potential artists to understand the history of the art; I used it to that effect. Back before the Internet and digital photography, it was pretty much the definitive compilation. [So what if they missed the totality of hip hop culture and some local writers--how could one book possibly capture that?]

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Summary: GREAT GRAFFITI BOOK!
Review: THIS BOOK HAS SO MANY PHAT PIECES. SO MUCH COLOR AND TALENT. WORTH THE MONEY FOR SURE! HAS OLD SCHOOL PIECES FROM ALL OVER THE US AND SOME INTERNATIONAL. IF YOU LOVE ART AND ANYTHING URBAN RELATED THIS IS FOR YOU!

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Summary: A Sad Attempt
Review: This book is exploitation at it's finest. Poor overall design and photos. Where's the intensity and angst! You won't find it here. The smiling pictures of many graffiti writers in broad daylight look like they're right out of a Boy Scout pamphlet.
This book has the feel of something thrown together very fast by amateurs.