{"product_id":"tilt-bilingual-edition-9782370741844","title":"Tilt (Bilingual edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraffiti is like art: everyone thinks they know what it is, but things get complicated if you try to give a precise explanation. This book will trace a history of the art of graffiti through the evolution of \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e's work. Graffiti writing, which is based on drawn and painted letters, is a movement many of today's graffiti artists—\u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e included—claim to be part of when they want to highlight their own singularity and resist the \"street-art turn\" of the visual artworks currently produced in public space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist painted his first tag as \"Tilt\" in 1990. He knew from then on that graffiti would be a lifelong passion. Graffiti conveys a libertarian, if not anarchistic and invasive, relationship with the city, against architectural and urban authoritarianism, the pervasiveness of advertising, and disfigured blocks. As far as \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e is concerned, the content does not necessarily have to bear any explicit political message: the gesture itself embodies an activist form of intervention on the territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 2016 on, \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e has been recreating a series of abstractions in his studio. His recent artwork tells its own story, just as strikingly surprising as a piece of graffiti you would happen to see in the city. They are both inscribed in the subversive origins of graffiti and in the history of painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether it be vandalistic—in the streets, where it belongs to everybody—or a decorative object—as the first writers to enter New York City's art galleries as early as the 1970s had decided—graffiti is an ongoing story to tell, or rather, to write...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455835652332,"sku":"9782370741844","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/714aqEtRINL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774800840","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/tilt-bilingual-edition-9782370741844","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}