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Mark Batty Publisher Presents: POSTER BOY: THE WAR OF ART
July 7, 2010
Contact: Adri Cowan
Telephone: 347.830.6271
New York, NY – July 7, 2010 – The street art collective known as “Poster Boy” tweaks corporate copy on subway platform billboards and posters, replacing it with incisive and playful puns and turns of phrase rich with innuendo and political punch. Poster Boy’s cut and slash mash-ups only exist in New York City, but the artful, funny appropriations of advertising and social commentary have received global attention.
The New York Times dubbed Poster Boy an “anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade, a sense of humor and a talent for collage”; the Guardian UK said of the work, it “is witty, web-savvy and economical…and the only materials it requires are chutzpah, imagination and a 50 cent blade.”
From overhauling a Snickers billboard to give Noam “Chompsky” props to a beheaded Calvin Klein Jeans model and collaborations with Princess Hijab, Decapitator and Aakash Nihalani, Poster Boy draws attention to the misleading nature of advertising by creating anti-establishment sentiments that passersby can’t help but notice.
As the Poster Boy manifesto states: “More important than the longevity and popularity of the art, or vandalism, is what Poster Boy stands for: understanding the difference between what is legal and what is right.”
Other MBP titles sure to appeal to the street art enthusiast include: Name Tagging and Going Postal by Martha Cooper; Textura: Valencia Street Art; Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca; Bay Area Graffiti; Graffiti Japan; Urban Guerilla Protest; PEEL: The Art of the Sticker; Los Angeles Graffiti; Bathroom Graffiti; CBGB: Decades of Graffiti; Talk Back: The Bubble Project; and Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne.
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Poster Boy: The War of Art
Page Count: 96 pages
Size: 7 x 7 inches
Format: Casebound
Publication Date: June 2010
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-9819600-5-0
For a review copy, more information, or to schedule an interview with the authors, contact Adri Cowan, +1 347.830.6271, adri@markbattypublisher.com.
