Stickers – From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, DB Burkeman with M. LoCascio

Universe Publishing/ Rizolli Int., 300 Park Ave South, New York, NY10010, Usa
Isbn 978 0 7893 2081 0

This is an amazing book, 300 pages full colour filled with stickers, stickers, stickers of all sorts. Let me quote the table of contents: „Zeitgeist, Music, Skate, Brands, Graffiti, Themes, Handmades, Sociopolitical, Artists, Unconventional, Special Projects“. If you think this book has no text, you are wrong. There is introductions and you get to know sticker collectors and their obsession. Each chapter has a short intro but of course the main focus is on the stickers – thousends of them.

Of course there is tons of crap in here too but it is so nice put together that it does not matter. And of course that is what you get when you „concentrate“ on stickers – there is good and bad. For some it is the ultimate art form, for others they are a waste of the enviroment. Some transport messages, are funny, stupid, clever… it is all in here. I enjoyed most parts of the book and had a great time looking at it. And, it was very inspiring, so inspiring that it made me get some Trust-Stickers going again and what else can a book ask for! 35.- $ (dolf)

[Trust # 148 June 2011]