Graphic tourism
April 8, 2004 | bengisu yilmazturk
by Jason Grant, Daoud Sarhandi from Eye Magazine.
A recent batch of books surveys the vernacular streetscapes of Cuba, India, New York, Mexico, Egypt, Tokyo and elsewhere. Loopy cartoons
and brutal lettering sell tacos and car batteries, and hand-painted murals display film stars' images, storeys high. Around the world, urban surfaces chronicle the resourceful endeavours of both established and nameless artists.
In Sensacional!: Mexican Street Graphics,
David Byrne writes: 'We must memorialise the anonymous artists in this book, and in others, because their work is in danger of disappearing.' This comment follows right after a piece by another writer that denies any anthropological agenda. Even so, the designer ventures into this field as an ethnographer, recording and filter
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