Wall and Piece.**

UK,Qrto wraps/s/back,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,14th imp. [Number line 15 17 19 20 18 16 14.Originally and first published in UK,Qrto HB, 2005 by the same publisher,this being a subsequent s/back issue.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,as issued - pristine - and virtually as new.Bright,clean,wrap-around,colour photographic artwork by BANKSY,illustrated covers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,and immaculate plain white endpapers to recto and verso of respective card covers.Circular,red,adhesive sticker label with b/w lettering "NOW WITH 10% MORE crap" to it's centre.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.UK,Qrto wraps,10-238pp [paginated] includes profuse b/w+colour photographs and illustrated examples of the artist's work throughout the book and some occasional text.See also,book ID rja667017 for another wraps/s/back edn of same work/title.
Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets,walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world.His identity remains unknown but his work is witty,subversive and prolific.Artistic genius,political activist,painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable,except may be when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum.
Witty and subversive,his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction,policeman with smiley faces,rats with drills,and umbrellas.If you look hard enough you'll find your own.His statements,incitements,ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals.
'Graffitti is not the lowest form of art. . . .There is no elitism or hype,it exhibits on some of the best walls a town has to offer,and nobody is put off by the price of admission.A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
The people who run our cities don't understand
graffitti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit.But if you just value money then your opinion is worthless.
They say graffitti frightens people and is symbolic of the decline in society,but graffitti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians,advertising executives and graffitti writers.
The people who truly deface neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl their giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.They expect to be able to to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you're never allowed to answer back.Well,they started this fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back.
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place.Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.'
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