Buenos Aires Street Art Explored in Textura Dos
Luscious photographs, bilingual text and free high-resolution files
New York, NY - September 13, 2010 - Buenos Aires, South America's second largest city, boasts a sprawling and distinctive street art scene that reflects the civic pride of the porteños-the word used to refer to its citizens-as well as the influences of global graffiti, street art, and visual cultures. Textura Dos: Buenos Aires Street Art breaks the city down by its neighborhoods, or barrios, providing a stunning visual tour of one of the world's great cities. The bilingual text in English and Spanish ensures that this book will appeal to locals as well as anyone interested in contemporary international graffiti and street art.

Authors Guilherme Zauith and Matt Fox-Tucker recount their experiences exploring featured neighborhoods, meeting artists, and photographing their work. They also provide historical background about the barrios,which connects to the varied styles that ornament the city. From the murals of Palermo and San Telmo to the tags, burners, and politically charged work of La Boca, the richness of the city's urban art and local politics takes shape between the covers of this book.

As the authors write, "Buenos Aires offers an abundance of abandoned factories, warehouses, and walls. As a result, some of the best artists in the world arrive and spread their influences and styles. The city's architecture provides a backdrop for the artists to blend textures and colors on walls, doors, windows, shutters, kiosks, road signs, traffic lights, and other street furniture... The street art scene in Buenos Aires is now a thriving mix of local and foreign artists."


Like the original Textura, Textura Dos also makes available to readers via download high-resolution files of graffiti patterns and textures that can be used for any number of design applications.

About the Authors

British-born, Buenos Aires-based Matt Fox-Tucker is a freelance journalist. He worked for the BBC for more than five years as a radio broadcaster and producer, and has also published articles in British national newspapers, including the Daily Mail, The Sun, the Daily Mirror, and London Evening Standard. Matt developed a passion for photography after working on the picture desk of the Daily Mail newspaper and remains a keen photographer. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Brazilian-born, Buenos Aires-based Guilherme Zauith is a freelance writer and photographer.
About Mark Batty Publisher

Mark Batty Publisher (http://www.markbattypublisher.com) is an independent publisher dedicated to making distinctive books on the visual art of communicating, showcasing the visual power and innovation of contemporary culture in all of its varied poses. Today, the visual comes at us from more places than ever, and its dissemination is faster and more advanced every year. Books from Mark Batty Publisher capture this acceleration on the pages of every book. Affordable, well designed, thoughtfully created, and produced to last, MBP books are artful products that readers want to hold onto forever.

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Textura Dos
By Matt Fox-Tucker & Guilherme Zauith
Page Count: 560 pages
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches (17.1 x 24.7 cm)
Format: Color throughout; Casebound w/ CD
Publication Date: August 2010
Price: US $65 UK £43 CA $81
ISBN: 9781935613015