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What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language? How has its production, which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space, invaded galleries, bringing with it real popularity for some artists? These are some of the questions that Magda Danysz, a gallery owner and recognized expert on street art, answers with an easily comprehensible and entertaining style in this unique, richly illustrated anthology, interspersed with the portraits of the big international names.
1) Perceptible aesthetics: the emergence of an art movement (from the 70s to the 80s)
• The seeds of the movement
• The emergence of a style
• When style writing becomes art
2) The renewal and growth of urban art (from the mid-80s to 2000)
• Outlaws and repression
• A worldwide outburst
3) The rise of a contextual art form (since the 2000s until today)
• Changing course!
• Street art is everywhere
• Becoming legitimate through art shows