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Author
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book features reproductions of 143 drawings by 150 Los Angeles graffiti artists that were done as part of a project collaborative project known as the Getty Graffiti Black Book. An introductory essay provides context for this black book and examines the Los Angeles graffiti scene"--
23) Night shadows
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Each night kids have been creeping around and spray painting houses in Tasha's neighborhood. Two days in a row, her neighbor Mrs. Lucy awakes to find graffiti outside her home. Tasha helps her paint over it. They discover that they are alike, except for their age, and become inseparable. But who keeps defacing Mrs. Lucy's house? Ed Young's inimitable cut-out art sensitively conveys the characters' emotions and the drama of the story: as the truth...
24) Tagged
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Ror's father commits suicide and burns down their house, she's forced to move from the commune in which she grew up to a homeless shelter in Manhattan. After she meets Trey, the leader of a graffiti crew, she's forced to decide what kind of artist she is, and what she wants.
27) Keith Haring
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols - barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people - which became synonymous with the volatile culture of 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Keith Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of this decade - hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style, gay culture - and brought them together.--Amazon.com...
28) Off the wall
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Makayla is a 24-year-old woman who works at the convenience store chain that's taken over the city. Jesse, an 18-year-old, genderqueer, anarchist punk lives in an abandoned IRT station in the Bronx. Their paths cross...
30) Unfadeable
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Publisher
Paranoid Pictures Film Company Limited
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. It follows an eccentric Los Angeles based French shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have British stencil artist Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. This fascinating study of low-level criminality,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups-from hobos to taggers-that have used the city's walls as a channel for communication. Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden language of marginalized groups...
35) Twist
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home, and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art collector Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realizes that he finally has...
37) Tagging freedom
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early days of the Syrian Civil War, cousins Kareem and Samira living in Massachusetts navigate the growing conflict in Syria, new friendships, and the use of art to express themselves.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly when Beatrix Adams, seventeen, who strives to be a medical illustrator, meets Jack, one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists, but even as Beatrix begins to uncover the secrets that have left Jack so wounded, her own family secrets threaten to tear them apart.
39) El plan de Zee
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Publishers
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Zee y sus amigos están furiosos porque su refugio de siempre ha sido reemplazado por tiendas que no son para ellos y porque los vendedores los tratan con desconfianza. Para que los comerciantes sepan lo que Zee y sus amigos piensan, Zee pinta un grafiti en la pared de la ferretería. Cuando lo borran con pintura, Zee decide repetir el vandalismo, pero esta vez de una manera más artística. El dueño de una tienda lo descubre con las manos en la...
40) Anonymouse
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous artist transforms the city through graffiti, inspiring other urban critters to get creative with their own surroundings."--
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