{"product_id":"chris-stain-a-long-story-short-a-collection-of-inspiration","title":"Chris Stain - A Long Story Short: A Collection of Inspiration","description":"\u003cp\u003e96 pages\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Chris Stain\u003cbr\u003e30 x 23 cm \u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Drago \u003cbr\u003e2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first monograph by Chris Stain, published to accompany his exhibition at the Wooster St. Social Club in New York. Born in 1972 and raised in the working-class neighbourhood of Highlandtown, Baltimore, Stain came up writing graffiti in the mid-1980s before printmaking classes in high school pushed him toward the stencil work he is now known for — spray paint, X-Acto knife and Dura-Lar, portraits of the people cities tend to look past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRather than a portfolio, the book is assembled as an autobiographical scrapbook: writings, letters, photographs, personal memorabilia and artwork laid out in a deliberately DIY manner, tracing where the imagery comes from before showing the imagery itself. The social realist strain in the work — routinely compared to the American painters of the 1930s and 1940s — reads here as biography rather than as style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drago","offers":[{"title":"Second-hand (very good condition)","offer_id":58644037075279,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/8147\/files\/ChrisStain-ALongStoryShort_ACollectionofInspiration1.jpg?v=1788347028","url":"https:\/\/www.legrandj.eu\/products\/chris-stain-a-long-story-short-a-collection-of-inspiration","provider":"Store Support Team ⭐","version":"1.0","type":"link"}