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Banksy. Urban Art in A Material World 20
Banksy. Urban Art in A Material World 20
Banksy. Urban Art in A Material World 20
1) Introduction 11
a) How Does Banksy Depict Consumerism? 11
b) How is the Term Consumer Culture Used in this Study? 15
c) Sources 17
4) Banksy 79
a) Street Art The Rise of Banksy 79
i) Why Did Street Art Increase around 2000? 83
ii) The Spectacularization of Art 87
iii) Barcode Barcode Leopard (2000) 89
iv) Money 93
(1) Cash Point (ca. 2001-2005) 93
(2) Di-Faced Tenners (2005) 97
v) Leftist Consumption 100
(1) IKEA Punk (2009) 100
(1.1) Street Art: Site-specificity and the Role of Photography 105
(1.2) Commercialization of Street Art 108
(2) Destroy Capitalism (2006) 110
b) Painting Crude Oils (since 2000) 114
i) The Series and the Exhibition 114
(1) The Framing 118
(2) Rats 120
ii) Selected Artwork 121
(1) Toxic Waste Barrel Crude Oil (2005) 121
(2) Shopping Cart Show me the Monet (2005) 125
(3) The Tesco Supermarket Motif and the Shopping Bag 129
(3.1) Street Art in a Museum Discount Soup Can (2005) 129
(3.2) Supermarket Bag Very Little Helps (2008) 132
(3.3) Essentials and Non-Essentials Shopping Bag and Religion 137
c) Installation The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill (2008-09) 140
i) Fast-food Consumption Nuggets and Sausages 144
ii) Animals as a Raw Material Supplier Leopard 150
iii) Children, Consumption and Cosmetics Rabbit 152
iv) Media Consumption Primates 155
(1) The TV-Set 156
(2) The Artist as Masturbator 160
5) Banksy and Damien Hirst 165
a) Keep it Spotless (Defaced Hirst) (2007) 165
b) Hirsts Spot Paintings 168
c) Keep it Spotless (Defaced Hirst) (2007) Part 2 173
d) The Location Reference Street and Art 183
7) Appendix 205
a) Banksys Pseudonym 205
b) Banksys Biography 212
c) Banksys Exhibitions 222
i) Banksys Artistic Activities and Travels 228
ii) Banksys Album Covers 230
d) Bibliography 232
i) Online Sources with an Author 232
ii) Online Sources without an Author 240
iii) Other Websites 245
iv) Printed Magazine or Newspaper Articles, Papers, Essays
and Interviews 247
v) Books and Exhibition Catalogs 250
vi) Videos 255