Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly executed in oil started to appear on graffiti sites across New York City. The paintings were the work of the well-known artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diaristic accounts of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her "beautification project" is both provocative and hilarious. It touches on such issues as who is allowed to make art in our society, and what distinguishes art from graffiti, while never ...
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Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly executed in oil started to appear on graffiti sites across New York City. The paintings were the work of the well-known artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diaristic accounts of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her "beautification project" is both provocative and hilarious. It touches on such issues as who is allowed to make art in our society, and what distinguishes art from graffiti, while never losing touch with the frequently comical reality of creating a contemporary art project on the streets of New York.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 100 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 0974364819 Hardcover, 12 1/4" x 9 1/2", dust jacket with 1/2" edge tear, edge wear, covers clean with corner bumps at spine, pages clean and unmarked, binding tight and secure. With photographs of 40 oval landscapes that had been painted directly onto graffiti sites around the New York City, together with the accompanying photographs of the graffiti, documented on maps inside front and rear covers.
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