Zero Publishing presents a boxed edition of Above’s book “Passport.”

About ABOVE

From WIKI (born circa 1981) has been creating public art since 1995. ABOVE is an international contemporary street artist who keeps his identity concealed and is widely known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden “arrow mobile” installations, and large mural “word play” paintings. ABOVE started traditional graffiti of tagging freight trains in California in 1995. ABOVE moved to Paris at the age of 19 where he started painting his trademark arrow (pointing above) all around the city. Since then ABOVE has been consistently traveling around the world doing many large self-financed “tours” with each tour exploring a new medium or style of artworks. ABOVE has been successful in putting his street artworks in over 90 cities in 60 different countries around the globe.

Technical Specs

• Edition: 200
• Sales start at edition number 61/200
• Hardcover book: signed/numbered – 12.25 x 12.25″ (31.1 x 31.1cm)
• 156 pages
• Over 120 color plates
• ISBN 978-1-937222-04-8
• Designed by Blaine Fontana of FONTANA STUDIOS

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Let’s take a break from all of the Terry Richardson hype for a minute and get really raw. Michael Dweck recently published “Habana Libre,” a collection of his photos documenting the social life in modern day Cuba. Dweck’s subject matter penetrates the vibrant social scene of a society that has been politically ostracized for decades. His use of the monochromatic medium adds the perfect flavor to the subject matter.

MICHAEL DWECK: HABANA LIBRE
Interviews by William Westbrook
Published by Damiani editore, Italy
290 pages, 21 four-color plates, 214 duotones plates, 3 gate-folds
Hardcover, jacketed, 9.75 x 12.5 inches
ISBN 978-88-6208-184-9
Retail: $65.00
Publication date: October 1, 2011 (US); November 1, 2011 (International)
Edition size: 3000

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Today, September 22, Glasgow-based street artist David Shrigley will be at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn to promote and celebrate the launch of his latest book “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?”, a book of illustrations, drawings, comics, photography and sculpture. The night includes a talk, book signing and sharpie tattoos for those interested. Also, East River Tattoo will be on site for those who want ink of a more permanent variety.

The book is also available online.

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Bringing together some 500 images—including most of artists’s boxes, as well as their details in painting, drawing, and sculpture— Charles Matton: Enclosures invites readers  into the intimacy of his creative universe.

Charles Matton was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. Haunted by the “urgent mystery” of appearances, he employing a diverse set of media to explore several themes. Many of these were drawn from his immediate environment – be it his apartment or local pool – and all became objects of experimentation. Charles Matton’s boxes—created using a vast range of techniques— are artistic microcosms, part of his “strategy of encirclement” which fit together in the coherent complexity of his body of work.

Sylvie Matton is a writer, scriptwriter, journalist, and author of novels such as the best seller Rembrandt’s Whore. Paul Virilio, urbanist and philosopher, is an emeritus professor of architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Virilio provides the forward to the book, Matton an intimate essay.

© CHARLES MATTON: Enclosures by Sylvie Matton, Flammarion, 2011.

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Since the release of Crack & Shine, London’s first graffiti book, publisher Fred Forsyth and photographer Will Robson Scott have been traveling the globe to bring together some of the worlds most notorious and prolific writers for a second volume, Crack & Shine International. Crack & Shine International is an honest and revealing picture of graffiti worldwide, offering within the chance for writers to discuss style, influence and history, and consider how these elements have come together to make graffiti what it is today.

We hooked up with Freddie Fraser Forsyth, the man behind it all, to learn a little more about Crack & Shine International. Check out what he has to say, and view images of the book, after the jump.

“Forty years ago, an article in the July 21,1971 issue of the New York Times ignited the graffiti movement in New York. With its profile on the then 17-year-old Demetrius, a Manhattan teenager who was known locally by his ubiquitous “tag” of TAKI 183, graffiti had officially arrived.”

Last night, on the 40th anniversary of the above mentioned article, July 21, 2011, TAKI 183 was present at The Hole gallery  for a special event with Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon, authors of a new book on the history of this colorful and influential art form – The History Of American Graffiti. TAKI 183 also wrote the forward to the book.

Photography by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

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New from BIS Publishing, Sketching the Basics shares drawing techniques from Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur. Eissen is associate professor at Delft University of Technology, where he is responsible for the freehand and digital drawing classes at the Faculty of Industrial Design. Steur is an experienced drawing lecturer at university and art academy level who now specialises in design sketching workshops.

For more information visit BIS.

My friend, Marisa Kakoulas, has given birth to another mammoth document of tattoo style. Following her three volume ode to everything black and grey, Color Tattoo Art is a slightly more manageable serving with an emphasis on tattoos drawing from cartoons, comics, pin-ups, manga, and a whole host of other new school influences. Like Kakoulas’ other books with Edition Reuss, Color Tattoo Art bursts with superb photographer and snappy interviews with the foremost tattooers on the planet.

Visit Kakoulas’ Needles & Sins for full purchase information.

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The Miller House and Garden releases from Assouline this September.

A quintessential expression of American modernism, Miller House and Garden created in 1952 by design geniuses Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, Dan Kiley, and Kevin Roche integrates home and landscape in a compelling composition of forms and spaces, honoring historical precedents without forgoing innovation. Part of Assouline’s renowned memoir series, Miller House and Garden shares not only the aspirations of the Miller family but also the spirit of an era.

Author Bradley C. Brooks is director of historic resources and assistant curator of American decorative arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design releases in August from Gestalten.

Movement, tension, balance, and surprise are being increasingly explored in today’s visual culture. More and more cutting-edge design, photography, and art depicts subjects that initially appear to be stable or to be symmetrical. But upon closer examination, each image tells a story. Or, more aptly, it triggers a story in the viewer’s mind that shows the inevitable events that will develop out of the portrayed circumstances.

Erratic documents recent, often playful creative investigations that reveal a range of narrative qualities inherent in single images. At the same, the featured work makes clear that even conditions of alleged stability or balance can come to an abrupt end at any time.

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