Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo Hardcover Book, Carlos Santana

Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. (Hardcover) by editor Annice Jacoby. Forward by Carlos Santana San Francisco streets are the canvas in this collection, featuring more than 600 photographs of murals, graffiti, posters and cartoons by Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Neckface, R. Crumb, Andrew Schoultz and many others. This comprehensive book showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Beginning in the early 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic, multicultural community. Rigo, Las Mujeres Muralistas, Gronk, Barry McGee (Twist), R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, the Billboard Liberation Front, Swoon, Sam Flores, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Juana Alicia, Os Gemeos, Reminesce, and Andrew Schoultz are among the many artists who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery. Essays and commentaries by insiders involved with the movement document the artistic, social, and political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo.