2Create: Art Collaborations in New York City

2Create: Art Collaborations in New York City

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This beautifully designed book showcases the work of nine pairs of New York City's finest graffiti and street artists, delving deep into their backgrounds, techniques, and collaborative processes. Each duo consists of artists with unique styles who come together to create a larger-than-life work of street art in a neighbourhood in New York, the birthplace of modern graffiti. Witness the immense creative potential of collaborations that have produced stunning examples of classic graffiti, collage work, screen printing, and murals. Each chapter provides access to a mysterious underworld, leading readers to secretive meetings of creative minds out of which ephemeral, yet nonetheless remarkable, works are born and later transferred onto walls, rooftops, trucks, and subway platforms. The combination of revealing interviews and colourful action photography produces a narrative arc of relationships formed between individuals from diverse backgrounds and creative upbringings that follows the artistic process from creative spark to collaborative masterpiece. AUTHOR: Yoav Litvin is a New York City-based scientist, photographer, and writer. In his work, he is interested in promoting creative and progressive causes with a focus on documenting urban culture, arts, and peoples. 261 colour images

Yoav Litvin is a New York City-based scientist, photographer, and writer. In his work, he is interested in promoting creative and progressive causes with a focus on documenting urban culture, arts, and peoples.

Author: Yoav Litvin
Format: Hardback, 296 pages, 254mm x 203mm, 1420 g
Published: 2016, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, United States
Genre: Fine Arts / Art History

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This beautifully designed book showcases the work of nine pairs of New York City's finest graffiti and street artists, delving deep into their backgrounds, techniques, and collaborative processes. Each duo consists of artists with unique styles who come together to create a larger-than-life work of street art in a neighbourhood in New York, the birthplace of modern graffiti. Witness the immense creative potential of collaborations that have produced stunning examples of classic graffiti, collage work, screen printing, and murals. Each chapter provides access to a mysterious underworld, leading readers to secretive meetings of creative minds out of which ephemeral, yet nonetheless remarkable, works are born and later transferred onto walls, rooftops, trucks, and subway platforms. The combination of revealing interviews and colourful action photography produces a narrative arc of relationships formed between individuals from diverse backgrounds and creative upbringings that follows the artistic process from creative spark to collaborative masterpiece. AUTHOR: Yoav Litvin is a New York City-based scientist, photographer, and writer. In his work, he is interested in promoting creative and progressive causes with a focus on documenting urban culture, arts, and peoples. 261 colour images

Yoav Litvin is a New York City-based scientist, photographer, and writer. In his work, he is interested in promoting creative and progressive causes with a focus on documenting urban culture, arts, and peoples.