内容简介

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting inthe Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas.If you look hard enough you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals.His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.

精彩摘录

藝術不像其他文化因為藝術品的成功並不取决於它的眾民環每天塞滿音樂和電影院・我們讀上百萬本的小説・買幾十億元的唱片。我們這些人左右了大多數文化的製造和品質・卻不能影響我們的藝術。我們看到的藝術只由少數菁英人士完成。一小群人創作推廣購買展覽。藝術的成功,由他們一手決定世界上只有幾百個人有真正的發言權在美術館裡你只是客賞著名富豪典戦利品密室。

——引自第170页

街をマジに汚しているのは、ビルやバスに巨大なスローガンを殴り書きして、僕らにそこの製品を買わないかぎりダメ人間だと思い込ませようとする企業のほうだ。やつらは、ところ構わず平気で僕らにメッセージを浴びせるくせに、僕らが反論することはけっして許さない。やつらがケンカを売ってきたから、反撃の武器に壁をえらんだのさ。

——引自第8页