Street Art … San Francisco Style

Even more on street art in urban environs today …

Things are a bit more risqué in San Francisco than many other parts of the world including in relation to graffiti and street art.

In fact something called Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo has been created to captures the essence of San Francisco: community, diversity, color, expression.  

As one person said - “It's a city that belongs to its artists, and this book feels that way too."            

Birthed in the early 1970s, a provocative new street art scene transformed San Francisco’s legendary Mission District into an art epicenter that crosses popular culture, fine art and political audiences. “Mission Muralismo,” is an ever-growing movement of accomplished street art combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and guerilla graffiti that has catapulted many San Francisco artists into the international spotlight.

Now a book, called Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby [Abrams; June 2009; hardcover] showcases these vibrant works in hundreds of color photographs, with in-depth commentary by the artists who produced them and Mission-savvy writers including a foreword by Grammy Award Winner Carlos Santana.  Featuring over 500 full-color photographs and 30 essays, including artists R. Crumb, Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Barry McGee (TWIST), Rigo, and Spain Rodriguez, Street Art San Francisco comprehensively exposes more than three decades of this expansive and vibrant public art movement. 

Buy it on Amazon.com here.

Or, just look at the cool images below.

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