Graffiti School: A Student Guide and Teacher Manual

Graffiti School: A Student Guide and Teacher Manual

<p><strong>A comprehensive textbook on this once-demonized art form, featuring its history, lessons on making graffiti, and a teacher's manual</strong></p> Although the public perception of graffiti has changed radically over the last fifty years, few would have predicted that it would become the subject of this major new textbook.<br /><p>Christoph Ganter covers the history of informal mark-making in the public realm, from the first unauthorized characters inscribed on the ancient walls of Egypt and Pompeii to nineteenth-century Vienna, where Joseph Kyselak established himself as the father of graffiti; from New York's “Taki 183," the first modern graffiti writer, to more recent developments brought about by the Hip Hop revolution. The effects of the 1980s films <em>Beat Street</em>, <em>Wild Style</em>, and <em>StyleWars</em> are examined, as is the influence graffiti experts on today's subculture through books, magazines, and the Internet.</p> The practical elements of graffiti are considered in later chapters, which combine tips on handling a spray can, creating a unique tag, and getting work up safely and legally with step-by-step diagrams that show how to achieve effects such as bubblestyle, blockbusters, oneliners, and wildstyle. A teacher's manual features sample plans for a single lesson as well as guidance on structuring a longer course.<br /> 300+ illustrations, 101 in color