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THE BEAT OF URBAN ART
By: Justin Bua
The Art of Justin Bua
Collins Design
March 2007
On Sale: March 13, 2007
160 pages
ISBN: 0061153834
EAN: 9780061153839
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Justin Bua creates cool art. His wigglyβarmed D.J. intently scratches vinyl on a turntable, head and shoulder wedging in place a set of headphones that he is too cool to wear, while surrounded by the tools of his trade. In another painting, two bald, shirtless basketball players on a city playground rise into the air as the backboard and pole snake ever upward towards surrounding tenement buildings. In the background, a third player stands by in awe, mouth agape, Afro Pick at attention in his hair, while their earthbound buddies are a study in attitude. In "1981," a breakdancer spins on his shoulders, Adidasβclad feet in the airβa collection of characters from the uptown 'hood circling him to marvel at his amazing moves. These are just a few of the pieces included in The Beat of Urban Art, which showcases a motley cast of jazz musicians, homeboys, street hustlers, and neighborhood toughsβfrom the heavyβ lidded "Piano Man" in his cubist yellow jacket to the slyly romantic "El Guitarrista," strumming his acoustic guitar and peering lazily out of his bedroom eyes; from the exuberant nighttime craps players of "Green Street" to the joyously sneaky grafitti artist entering the subway yard through a hole in the fence in "The Artist."
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