Guerrilla Art
Edited by Sebastian Peiter; Laurence King, $27
Who will love this book: Art lovers and style aficionados who appreciate the intersection points between fashion, interior design and street style.
Why: This book and DVD documentary package offers an illustrated tour of the last decade of street art in London, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo. In an era where graffiti art can sell for tens of thousands of dollars via mainstream auctioneers like Sotheby’s, leading "guerrilla artists" like London’s stencil artist Banksy (whose work is collected by the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) are finding new admirers for their often-provocative work.
With great interviews and a sumptuous collection of colour photos, this book combines contemporary art theory alongside some nifty DIY inspiration for outside-the-box decorators: Check out the chapter on the Parisian street artist known as Space Invader for some super-stylish mosaic-tile art installations you can try at home.
Sample wisdom: French fashion designer Agnés B, an avid visual-arts patron and collector, likens today’s leading graffiti artists to geniuses like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who created their own street-art in the mean streets of 1980’s-circa New York City. "I think there are a lot of very talented people to be discovered in the streets today," she writes.
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