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Banksy: Completed

By Carol Diehl

By Carol Diehl

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Category: Art

Hardcover $39.95

Oct 26, 2021 | ISBN 9780262046244

Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl
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About Banksy: Completed

There’s more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world’s most famous living artist.

Banksy is the world’s most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there’s more to Banksy than the painting on the wall.

Seeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, economic, and political implications. She reveals how this trickster rattles the system, whether during his month-long 2013 self-styled New York “residency” or his notorious Dismaland of 2015, a full-scale dystopian “family theme park unsuitable for children” dedicated to the failure of capitalism. Banksy’s work, Diehl shows, is a synthesis of conceptual art, social commentary, and political protest, played out not in museums but where it can have the most effect–on the street, in the real world. The questions Banksy raises about the uses of public and private property, the role of the global corporatocracy, the never-ending wars, and the gap between artworks as luxury goods and as vehicles of social expression, have never been more relevant.

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Category: Art

Hardcover | $39.95
Published by The MIT Press
Oct 26, 2021 | 216 Pages | 7 x 9 | ISBN 9780262046244

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Table Of Contents

Introduction 1
1 Banksy: Completed 15
2 Banksy in Folkestone 39
3 The Case for Graffiti 57
4 Banksy and “Real Art,” Part I 65
5 Banksy and “Real Art,” Part II 77
6 Banksy and the Art Market 101
7 Dismaland 117
8 Banksy in Bethlehem 155
Conclusion 185
Acknowledgments 195
References 197

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