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The Art of Rebellion 2

May 6th, 2006

After the successful first part, c100, author of “The Art of Rebellion” brings us finally the second volume. For those of you that don’t know the book “The Art of Rebellion”, published in 2003, that title is possibly one of the most complet guides about the new forms of artistic expression on the streets, what we could call Street Art. Considering the wide range of countries and cities that this phenomenon has reached in the past years, the huge number of street artists and the variety of styles, techniques and approaches to the matter it’s no surprise that a single book couldn’t but only show a partial side of the whole subject.

“The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism” seems to aim not only at widening that view but to do it with the lessons learned by the author from the previous experience. After taking a careful look (well, a few looks) at this new book we can afirm that it’s a more complete and elaborated volume than the fist part not only because of the larger number of pages and bigger size but because a more polished methodology and a more careful edition. The book includes a first section with a general perspective of the worldwide Street Art scene, a second and main section featuring a nice selection of different artists such as PMH, Jon Burgerman, Blu, Miss Van, El tono, Nuria, Boris Hoppek, Stefan Marx aka Gomes, Derrick Hodgson, Faile, Kid Acne… A last part of the book covers some of the different events with street artists in the last few years. The book presents this way a varied, rich, active, and more mature scene than the previous part showed us three years ago.

For those of you unaware of what’s been going on in the streets of many cities around the globe in the last decade, “The Art of Rebellion 2″ is an excellent way to get a taste of what we are talking about. For those of you in the know this is also a must have because of its wide and documented approach to this amazing scene.