To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Of course, Banksy plays all the hits, from Girl with Balloon to Pulp Fiction, but there's also a variety of Banksy's "fine art," self-published books, installations, and bits of merch, including some pieces that've never been published in any other collection of Banksy's work. The other three A6 size pocket books (all published pre 2005) are out of print and only available on the second hand market (the good news is that most of their content appears in Wall and Piece). Complete with the scarce original dustwrapper, which is lightly creased to the top of the spine and with a light indentation to the top centre of the rear panel. Of these only the recently released Cut And Run (2023) and 2005’s Wall and Piece are widely available.

I do not claim to have read all these books (yet), I will however attempt to give a short opinion on each book based on my own experience and reviews I have read online. This site uses profiling cookies, also from third parties, that allow us to send you advertising messages more in line with your preferences. These include the Barton Hill Flower Girl image painted just yards from the youth centre where youth worker John Nation inspired Bristol’s original graffiti artists in the mid-1980s and which made a major impact on the young Banksy.

Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. In addition to a massive number of photographs of his creations there are some interesting background notes and comments from Banksy himself, giving some works a whole new meaning. shines a spotlight on contemporary British life through the visual similes which Barry Cawston constructs between his Weston Super Mare street photography and the scathing sideshows of Banksy’s Dismaland bemusement park. Only a few copies of the First Edition were issued with a dust jacket and it is rare to find an example of the dust jacket in collectible condition.

Banksy, THE WALLED OFF ART EDITIONS are SOLD OUT uncovers the secrets of his Walled Off art editions. This book guides readers through Banksy’s artistic processes and explains his influences, such as the Situationism movement and the May 1968 uprising in Paris. You can object to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.

Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. He wrote this artist biography book to make contemporary art approachable and enjoyable for his two children. This book presents the richness, diversity and strength of the work of the most famous street art artist in the world… and yet nobody knows his identity. They had been attracted by the media hype surrounding an exhibition ambiguously entitled ‘Banksy vs the Bristol Museum’. The paintings of collections that I make portray objects such as books, records and ephemera, which behold properties impinging passions and hobbies.The reproductions are interspersed with an excellent array of quotes, statements, letters and a beginners guide to painting with stencils. The world’s most celebrated artist, Banksy, keeps going from strength to strength and this latest edition of Where’s Banksy? In this beautifully designed collection, graffiti artist KET showcases some of the best street art from around the globe, as well as a selection of the enigmatic Banksy's own inspirational work. Printed on 120 gsm Munken Lynx Rough paper, bound in paper covered pictorial 3mm book board cut flush to the edges, in a matt white dust jacket with subtle blemishes printed on.

The still-life studies are a visual translation of the physical qualities connected with ownership, that of memories being conserved and a certain aspiration to capture meaning in our accumulation of retro material things. I think given the title ‘Seven Years With Banksy’, I would not expect there to be a great deal of new information in the newer version. The contributors are drawn from the academic and art worlds, business and media, with a range of ‘vox pop’ reactions. Explore the geography of genius in Desperately Seeking B**ksy, a pocket-sized, smaller sibling of Where’s B**ksy that illuminates the interaction between artist and space. Banksy to date (February 2020) has only ever published 4 books and they are all fabulous, especially as they are written by him not a narrator and give you some insight into his world and its’s just fun to hear his thoughts about these early pieces and destinations.The third incendiary collection of stencils and graffiti from Banksy (after Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall and Existencilism).