Something to s(pr)ay: Der Street Artivist Banksy

With spray cans, brushes, or markers, they artistically claim the streets: Street Art activists. The British former graffiti artist Banksy, a pseudonym, is a master of this new art form with old roots. He oscillates between humor and provocation, using his stencils and guerrilla actions to satirize well-known brands and motifs. The term Street Art has now become established for the unauthorized and heterogeneous flood of images in international metropolises, as opposed to Post Graffiti, Guerrilla Art, or Urban Art. Street Art is an urban statement against commercially produced mass taste and bourgeois common sense, providing anarchistic and creative food for thought. Ulrich Blanché examines Banksy's work from an art-historical perspective, offering the first study of its kind. He explores Banksy's interaction with urban space.