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Bengtsen, P. (2014). The Street Art World.

2014

BOOK AVAILABLE HERE: https://streetartworld.bigcartel.com/

BOOK SPECIFICATIONS TITLE: THE STREET ART WORLD YEAR: 2014 MEASUREMENTS: 155 X 220MM LENGTH: 243 PAGES ILLUSTRATIONS: 34 BINDING: PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-91-7473-868-1 PRICE: £24.99 + SHIPPING BUY THIS INDEPENDENTLY-PUBLISHED BOOK ON BIG CARTEL […] the best place for new scholars from several disciplines to enter this field of research or for published scholars to position their new work. Bengtsen's clear, accessible writing style and self-reflective tone make it ideal for use in the university classroom and for an educated popular audience as well. I can recommend this book with confidence to all who are critically interested in the contemporary possibilities for art and collective urban life. – Review by Joe Austin in Journal of Art History. The book is unusually beautiful. Its aesthetic expression in both design and choice of illustrations is well thought through. If you like street art, it is an experience looking through the book. The Street Art World is a welcome addition with its theoretical and empirical anchoring. It will undoubtedly be used as a work of reference for future studies of street art. – Review by Svein Torfinn Heddeland in Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. In recent years, street art has become embedded in popular culture and received growing attention from the art market and art institutions. Work by street artists has entered galleries, auction houses and museums, and some artists have been given the opportunity to create large-scale sanctioned public art projects. Simultaneously, widespread photographic documentation of street artworks and the circulation of images online have provided artists with a potentially global audience. 1 Based on studies of everyday interaction among artists, gallerists, collectors, bloggers and street art enthusiasts, The Street Art World investigates the often contradictory attitudes within the street art community towards art history and the i stitutio s of art. The o e tio to the art ook also deli erates o street art’s arket a d pu li art. It o siders street art’s pote tial to affe t the ie er’s perception of public space, and the possible challenges the increasing digital mediation of street art may pose to bringing this potential to fruition. Peter Bengtsen is an art historian and sociologist. He has been writing about street art since 2006. 2