The Day of the Dead: Art, Inspiration & Counter Culture

The Day of the Dead: Art, Inspiration & Counter Culture 

by Russ Thorne 

Language: English 

London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2015. 

191 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 x 30 cm. 

ISBN: 9781783616091, 9781783619283, 1783616091, 1783619287 

Summary: The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a festival of culture and youth, a feast of the senses and celebration of life in death. Originating in Mexico and the Latin American countries, it began as a way of remembering departed relatives, as a means of embracing rather than fearing death. The rituals, the sugar skulls, the costumes and the festivities have grown into a massive counter culture across the Western world. Art, movies, cartoons and literature have been consumed by the brilliant power of the Day of the Dead, tendered here in this lively book.

Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents

Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents 

by Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon, Anthony Smyrski, Alex Lukas 

Language: English 

New York, NY: Abrams, 2007. 

384 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

ISBN: 9780810994386, 0810994380 

Summary: Urban subcultures have joined together to become something larger, more powerful, and more pervasive than ever before. Our new global urban culture, street culture at its broadest, is its force. The more than 1,000 photographs featured here together form a journey, a record, and an inspiration. The world's streets are its most vibrant sites of visual creativity, and amid their crush are photographers, documenting, creating, and collectively bringing this book to you. Their stories are the stories of the interconnectedness of global street culture. Travel and exploration are near the essence of street cultures, and the travelers who have used their passions to cross the boundaries of nations are at the heart of the process of cultural exchange.--[from publisher's description]