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There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist.\nBanksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, 
Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall.\nSeeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, economic, and political implications. She reveals how this trickster rattles the system, whether during his month-long 2013 self-styled New York "residency" or his notorious 
Dismaland of 2015, a full-scale dystopian "family theme park unsuitable for children" dedicated to the failure of capitalism. Banksy's work, Diehl shows, is a synthesis of conceptual art, social commentary, and political protest, played out not in museums but where it can have the most effect--on the street, in the real world. The questions Banksy raises about the uses of public and private property, the role of the global corporatocracy, the never-ending wars, and the gap between artworks as luxury goods and as vehicles of social expression, have never been more relevant. 
 About the Author 
Carol Diehl is an artist, poet, and art critic. Formerly a longtime contributing editor to 
Art in America, she has written for 
ARTnews, 
Art + Auction, 
Art & Antiques, 
Metropolis, and other publications.

Banksy: Completed

Arts & Photography

Diehl, Carol

History & Criticism

The MIT Press

Lawrence Gipe: 3 Five-Year Plans

Marilyn A. Zeitlin

Lawrence Gipe

Arizona State University Art Museum

? The record and results of one man's artistic and ecological adventure Artist and Williams College art professor Mike Glier has translated his preoccupation with man's connection to nature into a series of precisely plotted journeys. For Along a Long Line, he traveled to four disparate locations along the 70th longtitude to experience and paint the very diverse environments and landscapes offered along this narrowly defined slice of the earth. His itinerary included sub-Arctic Canada, the Ecuadorian rainforest, sub-tropical St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands-and New York City. While his colorful abstract landscapes are at the forefront here, also included are Glier's detailed blog entries and photographs. The result: a story of discovery and intense observation, recounted with enthusiasm and the technical mastery of plein air painting in the tradition of Audubon.

Mike Glier: Along A Long Line

Glier, Mike

Corrin, Lisa

Hudson Hills

The work of figurative/abstract painter Andrew Stevovich with texts by Anita Shreve, novelist, and Carol Diehl, art critic and painter.

Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements

SHREVE, Anita

Individual Artists

Hard Pr Inc

The work of figurative/abstract painter Andrew Stevovich with texts by Anita Shreve, novelist, and Carol Diehl, art critic and painter.

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