Banksy

 
　　收集大量Bansky的塗鴉資料與照片－包含許多年代久遠的的珍貴影像，以全幅全彩方式重新呈現於讀者眼前，並搭配街頭藝術專家Alessandra Mattanza的詳盡剖析，全方面深入了解Bansky。包含每個作品中主要圖騰所表達的意象，如動物、小孩、歷史人物、氣球、警察等等，都一一深究探討。

　　本書從早期Bansky透過塗鴉藝術，在倫敦各個街頭發聲的作品，一直到如今作為人權和自然環境鬥士，Bansky一步步的職業軌跡都帶著讀者一起走過。看這位神秘的塗鴉畫手，如何將「塗鴉」這個原本被視為是犯罪的行為，昇華成殿堂等級的藝術作品，而他又是如何透過這一切，反諷這世界給他的讚揚，並持續為弱勢者們發出吶喊。

The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy continues to defy accepted wisdom about artistic success, growing only more famous and powerful even as he sticks to his anti-establishment platform and to his mission to give a voice to the voiceless.

Accompanied by stunning full-page, full-color reproductions and photographs of works in situ--including many that have been lost to time­-photographer and street art expert Alessandra Mattanza’s impassioned and informed text follows Banksy’s career trajectory from creator of message-laden stencils on London’s city walls to a sought-after champion of human and environmental rights. She investigates many of the key images that populate Banksy’s work--animals, children, historic figures, balloons, cartoon characters, police officers, and others. She shows how Banksy’s oeuvre has expanded beyond graffiti and stenciling and how his art has helped support his activism in a variety of causes--from calls for peace in the Middle East to the preservation of the natural environment. Best of all she helps readers make sense of the rather unusual path Banksy has chosen--an artist who uses his global platform to raise awareness about the underserved, rather than to his own celebrity. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how Banksy helped transform an illegal act of criminal damage into a high art form, and how, by ridiculing institutionalized art, he has achieved enormous fame within those very institutions.

Alessandra Mattanza is an author, screenwriter, and photographer. She currently works as a foreign correspondent, contributor, and editor for several publishers in Italy and Germany, and is the author of Street Art: Famous Artists Talk About Their Vision.