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ART OF REBELLION, THE: WORLD OF STREETART (SOFTCOVER)
Street art has taken over the world in recent years. Tokyo, Paris, Brussels, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Munich, and Rome have all been “liberated” by artists who are as motivated by the drive to invent new...$ 15.99
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EVERYTHING THAT CREEPS (HARDCOVER)
The first collected work of the LA underground art world’s favorite wunderkind, Elizabeth McGrath, whose work has appeared in Pop Surrealism, Weirdo Deluxe, and Juxtapoz. 112 pages of full-color photos and detail shots reveal the...$ 34.99
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JACKSON 500 VOL. 2, THE (HARDCOVER)
Continuing where he left off with The Jackson 500, Volume One, Tim Biskup’s latest fine-art collection contains paintings 101 to 200 in a series of five hundred business-card-sized paintings, reproduced at actual size. Acting as...$ 14.99
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KUSTOM KULTURE : HOT ROD CAR ART
by Robert Williams, Ed Roth, Von Dutch Car culture—pinstriping, customizing and cartooning—is nearly synonymous with Southern California culture. Kustom Kulture tells the story of the revved-up legends of the custom car cult of the ‘50s,...$ 19.99
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RAT FINK: THE ART OF ED "BIG DADDY" ROTH (SC)
by Douglas Nason, Greg Escalante, Ed Roth Born in Los Angeles and raised in the epicenter of the California hot rod explosion, Ed Roth created automotive forms purely from his own imagination. His hand-built creations...$ 19.99
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SURF CULTURE: ART HISTORY OF SURFING
Designed by David Carson and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in July 2002, Surf Culture examines the history of modern surfboard design from 1900 to the present and features...$ 29.99
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TIKI ART NOW! A VOLCANIC ERUPTION OF ART
by Otto Von Stroheim Introducing the real American Idol—Tiki! At the dawn of the 21st century, the world is at odds with its primitive past and its sophisticated cultural future. Herein lie the signposts to...$ 19.99
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BABEL (JIM HOUSER/GINGKO) HARDCOVER
by Jim Houser Jim Houser is a self-taught artist who paints at night when the rest of the world sleeps. In his work is a personal iconography of seemingly random words and images, inspired by...$ 15.99
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MAVERICK'S: THE STORY OF BIG-WAVE SURFING (HC)
by Matt Warshaw Maverick’s, “The Voodoo Wave,” presents a surfing challenge like no other—with its 50-degree murky water, 60-foot faces, punishing rock bottom, and shifting Central California currents. This book captures the stories surrounding the...$ 29.99
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CRY FOR HELP: 36 SCAM EMAILS FROM AFRICA, ILLUSTRATED
The tone is carefully chosen: subservient, condescending, solicitous, disdainful. That’s the way the now ubiquitous “African Scam Mail” has descended upon us—and that’s the way German illustrator and author Henning Wagenbreth applies his own distinct...$ 9.99
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DF: IDIOTS ON PARADE (HARDCOVER)
The first overview of the notorious DF graffiti crew and their legal and illegal creations. DF is made up of 21 (plus a few slackers) artists, including Dalek, Merz, Sub, Cycle, and more. Both collectively...$ 24.95
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Icepick - Street Art in Iceland
Thordis Claessen:Icepick Considering that the island nation of Iceland is home to just over a quarter of a million people, its street art scene is astoundingly roubust, varied and inventive. Multi-talented author Thordis Claessen spent...$ 20.99
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Straight Lines
Markus Christl: Straight Lines “Type isn’t merely a medium of communication, it expresses a personnality or style.” This new style reveals the exciting process of the graffiti artist’s craft, from the rudimentary fusion of letters...$ 29.95
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Mike Giant: Giant
Mike Giant:Giant (Expanded Edition)Mike Giant has achieved fame as a graffiti artist, illustrator and tattooist. Black ink is GIANT’s specialty and whether his medium is concrete, paper or skin his signature style – made up...$ 29.95
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Usugrow "Love Hate from JP" Book
FIFTY24SF BOOK - USUGROW – “LOVE HATE FROM JP” – JAPANESE ARTIST, USUGROW IS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS HARDER SUBJECT MATTER SUCH AS SKULLS, HORROR CHARACTERS AND TATTOO ART, WHICH HE EXECUTES IN DELICATE POINTILLISM AND...$ 20.00
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The Buddy System | Barry McGee aka TWIST
Despite, or perhaps in ironic conjunction with, Mayor Giuliani’s efforts to make New York City clean and pristine, graffiti has become a respected staple of the gallery scene. Barry “Twist” McGee’s tags and caricatures are...$ 24.99
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GRA(FF)ITE (GRAFFITE)
Graffite is an art book of all pencil artworks by international graffiti/street artists including Chaz Bojorquez, Man One, Saber, Revok, Os Gemeos, Iz the Wiz, Daim, Peeta, Vyal, Cope2, KofieOne, Nina, and others. Small, slim,...$ 9.99
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HEY FUDGE
The work of artist/writer Travis Millard (aka Fudge) has graced unguarded cityscapes, the walls of galleries worldwide, the pages of numerous magazines and journals, sneakers and skateboards and snowboards, even the sides of his own...$ 25.99
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SABER: MAD SOCIETY
Los Angeles based graffiti legend SABER is world renowned for his “Los Angeles River” piece (1997), the largest in the world. His piece on the sloping bank of the Los Angeles River is nearly the...$ 29.95
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SUPPLY & DEMAND: THE ART OF SHEPARD FAIREY (HARDCOVER)
Fairey’s entire body of work—a massive retrospective covering 17 years of this groundbreaking artist’s prodigious output—is all documented here, in a museum-quality layout and binding. Through the lens of esteemed writers and critics such as...$ 59.95