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Keep Your Mouth Shut: Graffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond

Keep Your Mouth Shut: Graffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond


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A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unsponsored works of art around the world. More than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthand stories to offer readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street culture, a subculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries. Vibrant, urgent prose takes readers into the emotions and physical experience of bringing street art into existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as the camaraderie of souls bound by these acts of expression. . Each story is a real-life mini action adventure following FLEX KYM's trajectory from local artist to world traveler to incarcerated individual to creator with reignited passion . Underpinning the story of the art is that of Chicago and its growth into a city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting . As the art ignites a path to form global networks, the journey takes readers to New York, New Jersey, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Vienna, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Catania, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bangkok, Barcelona, Istanbul, Athens, and Berlin . Features images of art by FLEX, ARK, FACT, SKOL, DTEK, SPIN, HEAR, NYKE, and other graffiti artists from Chicago and beyond This visceral look at the artistic process takes readers deep inside the world of graffiti art-a subculture that is now more celebrated than ever. AUTHOR: FLEX | KYM is a prolific world-traveled painter, writer, and photographer. His experience with "graffiti art" comes from being deep in the trenches with a desire to share and celebrate it through story and image. He lives in Chicago. SELLING POINTS: . Never-before-seen photography and previously untold stories showcase graffiti art and street culture and detail FLEX KYM's trajectory from local to international artist . Provides insight into Chicago's unique art scene and its growth into a city that is internationally recognized for live-action urban painting, in addition to following the travels of FLEX KYM to cities around the world . More than 350 images are supplemented with real-life mini action adventure stories that provide rare insight into the artistic process, including the emotions and physical experience of bringing street art into existence 358 colour images

About the Author :
FLEX | KYM is a prolific world-traveled painter, writer, and photographer. His experience with  “graffiti art” comes from being deep in the trenches with a desire to share and celebrate it through story and image. He lives in Chicago.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780764366871
  • Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Graffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond
  • Width: 279 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0764366874
  • Publisher Date: 28 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1398 gr


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