Having risen to prominence in the 80s, after he began spraying stencil artworks of rats around his home city of Paris, Prou went on to become an influential figure in the street art scene, inspiring everyone from Banksy to Swoon to Logan Hicks. Her documentation of the contemporary scene includes fascinating insights into the techniques used by today's artists: Swoon and her amazing cut-outs, Invader's ceramic mosaics, and Above's wooden arrows.Showing at Woodbury House in London is The Return of The Rat - the first UK exhibition by iconic French street artist Blek le Rat (born Xavier Prou) in over a decade. Mad C first covers the scene's history, including Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant propaganda campaign, Blek le Rat's stencil graffiti, and Revs's sensational sticker flood in New York City in the 1990s.

More than eighty artists are represented, with images chosen from over 7,000 examples. Claudia Walde, aka Mad C and herself a graffiti artist, traveled the globe from Philadelphia to Prague, Barcelona to Berlin, to meet the great names in street art and to find the creative custodians of the new sticker cities. Walls, phone booths, curbs, traffic signs-in cities around the world public surfaces are adorned with hand-painted or hand-crafted posters and stickers.

For some forty years, city streets have been home to the modern graffiti movement, and now there is a fresh creative twist. But this essential book reveals how street art is continually renewing itself and concludes with a look into the future. Download Sticker City Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪ worldwide survey of one of the biggest trends in street art: paper works of art glued to a city's surfaces.

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