If someone mentions graffiti, what's your reaction? Most likely you'll think of scrawls on urban buildings: vandalism, degradation of the environment. Maybe you'll also have thought of art, frescoes, painting, urban culture. Tagging is the chronic itch of the graffitist to go and leave his nora de plume, the writer's signature, in a prominent place in town.

Graff is a highly symbolic and cutting-edge urban art form.publicity, films, the art world and the Internet oraff is a higoltc-ancuinr15ah a For a long time a virtually underground activity,ive ent passto,aumberries. The world is at last taking ed toignomdese, years, refusinren to regard it as a mmorp Ale course of exponentiall its voice and tagged its name to Theet ples featured this book have been photoll phed by imply gedand fanatical grafer Theibys livewirFrournal'Sandrine Pereiraauthor aners, also publisl'by Silverback Books.

art or vandalism?

in the beginning ...

graffiti, definitions

a brief history of graffiti

bomb alert

tagging hits

breakout

so graffiti is art ?

Zulu Nation, birthplace of hip-hop

from street to museum

graffiti to order

state of the nation

bombers on parole

moving on

a world tour of graffiti

setting the fashion

back to the street

glossary for the novice tagger

bibliography

web sites

acknowledgements

photographic credits