General Art

Part visual history, part memoir, You Can Crush the Flowers is a chronicle of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath, as it manifested itself not only in the art on the streets of Cairo but also through the wider visual culture that emerged...

Finnish contemporary artist EGS is one of the most successful of his generation. As one of the first clearly graffiti-rooted artists in Scandinavia EGS had a major solo show in Helsinki's Kunsthalle in 2018. In the spring of 2020 he will be exhibited at...

A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home. This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs...

How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop...

Views From My Kaleidoscope is a compilation of quotes, mantras, and beliefs from best-selling artist and designer, Melissa A. Mitchell. It is through her optimistic lens that she has been able to propel to higher heights throughout life. She understands...

Joanna Puciata will take you to a far away land of not too long ago in Warsaw, Poland. The family dynamics and the warmth of their home will make you forget the hardships of a time when the socialistic rule oppressed the Polish people. The family legacy...

Street art is now a recognised art form that can be thought-provoking, political, humorous or shocking. Urban Scrawl documents some of the world's most interesting street-art words and typography, from formal typography to angsty scrawl, presented in a...

You are doing it on your exercise book, beer coasters, the bench in the park, the school toilet, in the sand, during courses or while on the phone: to doodle, scrawl, scribble or just to daub is a basic need to express our creativity and sometimes the...

When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision...

Taylor is a writer who is well-known for his numerous graffiti works all around the world. In TRAIN STORIES he recounts twelve unusual and epic stories that take us to the strange universe of train travels and that of graffiti on trains and metros, from...

West Africa, 1971. Two old friends rendezvous in Black Star Square, the heart of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to see Ike and Tina Turner, the Staples Singers, Roberta Flack, Wilson Picket, Santana and other black American performers at the mammoth Soul...

- Every street art hotspot in Paris collected in a handy guide- Includes detailed descriptions with helpful maps and pictogramsExperience Paris from a unique point of view and explore the city through its famous street art. In this handy guide, ten...