Obey: Earth Crisis (First Edition)

A$140 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

First edition

FAIREY, Shepard (OBEY). Obey: Earth Crisis. Paris: Editions Albin Michel in partnership with Galerie Itinerrance, 2016. 2 vols. Large Folio (approximately 44 × 34 cm). Both volumes in oversize paperback format with pictorial covers. Clear plastic slipcase. Vol. I: over 100 pp, fully illustrated in colour throughout, documenting Fairey's complete oeuvre of environmentally focused work. Vol. II: self-supporting all-board construction, containing 10 full-colour prints suitable for individual display or framing. Bilingual French and English text. First edition. Published in support of France Nature Environnement . Shepard Fairey (b. 1970) is the most widely seen street artist of his generation. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, he launched the OBEY GIANT campaign in 1989 with a sticker depicting wrestler André the Giant. His 2008 Hope poster for Barack Obama's presidential campaign became the defining political image of that election and one of the most recognised works of American graphic art of the early twenty-first century. Earth Crisis encapsulates 25 years of Shepard Fairey's work focused on environmental themes, from its recent manifestation as a globe suspended from the Eiffel Tower to posters, murals, and prints. The centrepiece of the Earth Crisis project was an installation produced for the COP21 climate summit in Paris in late 2015: a two-tonne globe suspended between the first and second floors of the Eiffel Tower,

• Binding: Hardcover

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