Stickers, From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art



What do Shepard Fairey, Poster Boy, Cost & Revs, Sonic Youth, Goldie, Triple Five Soul, ACT UP, Martha Cooper, Billboard Liberation Front all have in common? The art of the STICKER! ARTonAIR's own BLURRINGradio DJ/host DB Burkeman has been working on the history of the sticker and sticker art which culminated in the 2010 book release of Stickers, From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art (Written by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio, contribution by Shepard Fairey and Carlo McCormick, published by Rizzoli).

DB and host Jeannie Hopper discuss the inspiration for the book from his early days in the Punk Rock scene, the Andy Warhol banana sticker for Velvet Underground, and Shepard Fairey's Andre the Giant saturation campaign and his historic Obama campaign stickers.
 

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