Bay Area Graffiti Review

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What an amazing book! It really captures the Bay Area art scene so
vividly. The colors jump off the pages. I am not a long-time graffiti
fan, but this book caught my eye with a scene I never could have
imagined. The art is complex, fun, serious and whimsical. Great
photography by Rotman and wonderful documentation of art that is not
otherwise archived.


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Fabled as a region that embraces freedom of expression in all of its guises, the San Francisco Bay Area has long been a world-renowned cultural hotbed. Bay Area Graffiti is the first comprehensive retrospective of the area's vibrant contemporary street-art scene. Documented by the distinctive photographic eye of Steve Rotman, the book's images showcase innovative art made all over the Bay Area, as well as how it blends into the region's stunning landscapes.

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Worldviews: The Watercolor Diaries of Tony Foster Review

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(More customer reviews)Tony Foster's painting all each amazing. The books is filled with his paintings and essays about his treks around the world. He paints almost exclusively on sight and that in and of itself is inspiration enough. Included are images of his paintings of the Grand Canyon which are considered the largest on sight paintings ever completed. Foster's medium is watercolor, but anyone will enjoy this book, whether painter, art lover or trekker!

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Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History Review

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(More customer reviews)ART IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1945 - 1980 is the last written document by the highly regarded, departed writer and critic Thomas Albright. Always an elegant writer, even when his message was quircky, Albright has left us with the definitve volume on the important art of San Francisco in the peak of its heyday. The chapters each represent a lecture presented by Albright and include indepth studies of Clyfford Still and the Explosion of Abstract Expressionism, Before the Storm: The Modernist Foundation, The Watershed: Funk, Pop, and Formalism, "Back to Nature": The Bay Area Figurative School, Conceptualism, Photorealism, etc. The written word is well illustrated with selected examples, but therein lies the only weakness of this book. In an overview this solid it would be so much finer were there double the number of examples of the artists being discussed. Still in all this is a magnificent volume and should be a part of every art library.

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