Keep your mouth shut : graffiti art & street culture in Chicago and beyond.
Title:
Keep your mouth shut : graffiti art & street culture in Chicago and beyond.
Author:
Flex Kym, artist, author.
ISBN:
9780764366871
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
206 pages ; color photographs ; 29 cm.
General Note:
Forward by EMTE.
Abstract:
"Popular culture is currently navigating a space where street art and graffiti art have become more celebrated than ever -- but the challenges of the artists are often unknown or forgotten, since most people see only the end product. In this book, Flex Kym gives readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street culture, capturing the energy and story of an individual operating within a subculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries. This book celebrates the beautiful yet painful life cycle of the artistic process. Vibrant, urgent prose takes readers into the emothions and physical experience of bringing street art into existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as the camaraderie of souls bound by these acts of expression. Each story is a real-life mini action adventure. Underpinning the story of the art is that of Chicago and its growth into a city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting. As the art ignites a path to form global networks with an underlying honor among graffiti vandals, Flex Kym brings readers along as he creates unsponsored works of art in the underbellies of cities around the world. Never-before-seen photography and previously untold stories detail Flex Kym's trajectory from local artist to world traveler to incarcerated individual to creator with reignited passion -- all in the service of a form of artistic expression that is as physical as it is visual." -- Provided by the publisher.