Seems you can’t move an inch anymore without running smack dab into the words ‘street art’. Increasing media exposure and growing acceptance of the method as a legitimate art form has generated an onslaught of new discussion about the crossover medium. As more art and design schools, magazines, and distinguished institutions like the Tate Modern jump onboard, the need for real information increases. Beyond the Street is Gestalten’s comprehensive response to supply this new demand.
     More of a manual than a coffee table book, the behemoth is comprised of 400 pages of in-depth interviews and full-color photographs. The book is smart, slick, and poses the long overdue questions burning in everyone’s mind. What makes street artists tick? What kind of implications does their work have on the urban landscape? Will the genre’s freedom ultimately trump the commercial art world? One hundred global power players in street and urban art are highlighted here including Wooster Collective, Shepard Fairey, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Agnes B, and Juxtapoz Magazine.