Street Art Icons

As a creative genre rooted in subversion and vandalism, in graffiti icons like Basquiat and Haring, and in political protests and revolutions, it takes a visionary to have the foresight to monumentalize the street art movement in a museum. Project developer Tony Goldman founded Wynwood Walls in 2009. He transformed the once neglected area full of warehouse buildings in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood into an inspiring open-air museum with colorful street art and graffiti by the world's best-known street artists.

Assouline's coffee-table book "Street Art Icons: The Story of Wynwood Walls takes you into the heart of Miami's iconic Wynwood Walls, the open-air museum featuring murals by some of street art's most iconic figures, including Shepard Fairey, Maya Hayuk, Kenny Scharf and Ron English. Be inspired by the stories behind the artworks and discover how Wynwood grew into a global phenomenon.

Pages of impressive photographs by renowned documentary photographer Martha Cooper, who captured the more than 150 murals and works over the past decade (what curator Jeffrey Deitch calls "vivid verbal imagery"), make this title a technicolor testament to the genre and a fitting tribute to the world's most profiled street art destination, which has inspired the site's millions of visitors to explore their own creative minds.

Specifications
Title: Street Art Icons
Author: Jessica Goldman Srebnick
Publisher: Assouline
Size: 250 x 330 x 30 mm
Size: 284 pages
Weight: 2722 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781649802910

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