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Seoul Street Art Graffiti Book |
| Description: |
Seoul Street Art Graffiti Book. While traveling in South Korea I explored it's 2000-year-old capital, Seoul. This book contains over 100 original street art and graffiti photographs taken within city limits near Gangnam, Insadong, Itaewon, Sinsa and Hongdae. It is a creative effort to help preserve the temporary visual artwork on the streets of Seoul.
At 25 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, Seoul itself is twice the size of New York City. It's one of the top ten financial centers in the world with over 100 museums and numerous prestigious universities. There is a culture here that is only represented anonymously in the reclaimed public spaces of the city. Images dot the urban landscape in the typical street art mediums that are used across the globe.
As is true in all cities, these personal public expressions touch on the struggles and triumphs of the current culture. In many cases, more can be gleaned from street art than from what is covered in the mainstream media. In these pages, you will see themes reflecting the struggles of Korean society, such as suicide (Seoul has the highest suicide rate in the world), repressive Confucian honor-shame society, Korean war destruction rebirth, youth unemployment, immense pressure to succeed in school and work, gender roles, equality, environmental pollution, reliance on nuclear power and oil, individuality, self image and the importance of appearance (Seoul also claims the highest number of plastic surgeries in the world).
This book is a small window into this temporary art world that is constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols. |
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| Keywords: |
Seoul, Street Art, Book, Graffiti, South Korea, Posters, Art in Seoul, Stickers, Visual, Prints, Public, Artists |
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