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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Erratically embellished with sprayed stencils, logo-rich stickers, elaborate murals, and unintelligible doodles, our urban environment overflows with irreverent and unlicensed imagery. Classic New York freehand and wildstyle graffiti has evolved, adapted, and atomised into a democratic and divergent forms of visual expression that is captured under the nebulous term 'street art'. 'It is characterised', states curator Rilka Kuittinen, 'less by a visual style than by an approach to transmission: it is unfiltered visual communication, fluidly moving across the derelict buildings, bus shelters and hoardings of cities across the world. Armed with attitude of irreverence, equality and freedom, it is in fact a new genre that mutates and morphs at the rate of a viral pandemic. Lacking a common aesthetic, street art, a term loathed by classic wall 'writers' speaks loudly to a passing population, even if it remains entirely obscure to most. The exhibition asked a number of questions about the evolution of graffiti into 'street art', and more.…