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Oct 26, 2021 | ISBN 9780262046244
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Praise
“Carol Diehl’s impassioned, lucid, and fascinating book Banksy: Completed was published in 2021. Anyone interested in contemporary art should read it. It made me radically reevaluate my take on the anonymous provocateur, whose 2013 one-month New York “residency” I had totally ignored. Like most people involved in the serious (ahem) art world, I had taken Banksy for a reasonably clever, certainly daring, but ultimately shallow performer of some kind of brand, kind of a parody of an artist. I couldn’t have been more wrong.”
—Cocoa the Journal of Cornwall Contemporary Art
“In this first in-depth analysis of anonymous activist, filmmaker, and street artist Banksy, Diehl (scholar and art critic) offers a rich discussion of the antiauthoritarian artist. Banksy emerged in Bristol, UK, in the 1990s in the underground scene, with its public antiestablishment art that often targeted fascism, surveillance, capitalism, and consumerism. Though Banksy produced documentation of his work with publications in 2001, 2002, and 2005 and the film Exit through the Gift Shop (2010), Diehl examines Banksy’s works and reminds readers that viewers, critics, scholars, and the public are essential to the work. They complete it. Diehl rightly critiques the art world’s annoyance and indignation with an artist whose success has captured attention within and beyond the art world despite, or because, the art resides outside representation and the dealer-auction-market system that has prevailed over three centuries. Rather than incorporate traditional footnotes, Diehl includes citations, in order of appearance, beneath each chapter heading in the back matter. Perhaps such a construction is Diehl’s own act of resistance, taking cues from Banksy’s forms of critique and self-expression. Marked by rich illustrations and absorbing prose, this volume will interest those studying contemporary art, street art and graffiti, art markets, material culture, and visual culture. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”
—CHOICE
“Looks [at] the dramas that unfold after Banksy’s artworks are discovered around the world… Gorgeous, well researched.”
—Daily Hive
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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