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In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic and controversial artist of modern times.\nFor someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous.\nThis fully updated and illustrated story of Banksy’s life and career 
builds an intriguing picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, 
Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question ‘Who is Banksy?’ is as much about his career as it is ‘the man behind the wall’.\nFrom his 
 beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now 
 sold at auction for seven-figure sums and hangs on celebrities’ walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary 
Exit Through the Gift Shop was 
Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more 
National Treasure than edgy outsider, 
who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today?\nThis book charts Banksy's journey from the 
 graffiti-scrawled streets of Barton Hill, the working class neighbourhood of Bristol where he and others 
 covered the walls with vibrant pieces while trying to avoid the police, through to some of the most prestigious galleries of the world, where his 
 daring acts of guerilla art have forced us to reconsider how we define as art.\nFrom the 
artist's own words to recollections of friends and colleagues, this book also examines the contradictions of Banksy's life: charting how a privately educated boy from a middle class area of Bristol 
 reinvented himself as a rogue and an outlaw who would take the art world by storm.\nWith 
 beautiful reproductions of some of his most controversial and recognisable works, this detailed study is a truly indispensible guide to understanding the ultimate art rebel whose work is no less relevant today than it was when he first started out some thirty years ago. 
 About the Author \nWILL ELLSWORTH-JONES was chief reporter and then New York correspondent for the Sunday Times as well as holding senior editorial positions at the Telegraph Magazine, The IndependentMagazine and Saga Magazine. His other books include a history of conscientious objectors in the First World War, We Will Not Fight. He lives in London.

Banksy: The Man behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition

Arts & Photography

Ellsworth-Jones, Will

Individual Artists

Frances Lincoln

While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on for collection and sale.
But as famous as Banksy is, he is also utterly unknown―he conceals his real name, hides his face, distorts his voice, and reveals his identity to only a select few. Who is this man that has captivated millions? How did a graffiti artist from Bristol, England, find himself at the center of an artistic movement? How has someone who goes to such great lengths to keep himself hidden achieved such great notoriety? And is his anonymity a necessity to continue his vandalism―or a marketing tool to make him ever more famous?
Now, in the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.
 Banksy offers a revealing glimpse at an enigmatic figure and a riveting account of how a self-professed vandal became an international icon―and turned the art world upside down in the process.

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall

Humor & Entertainment

St.Martin's Press

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for six-figure sums and hangs on celebrities' walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. But who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today? In the first attempt to tell the full story of Banksy's life and career, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question 'Who is Banksy?' is as much about his career as it is 'the man behind the wall'.

BANKSY THE MAN BEHIND THE WALL /ANGLAIS

Other Media

Aurum

'Vividly reconstructs the dramatic story of these men whose fortitude kept alive the principle of conscientious objection we now take for granted' Spectator 'A fascinating story, thoroughly researched and clearly told' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Book of the Week In June 1916, as his brother Philip was on the way to the Somme, Bert Brocklesby was in prison under sentence of death. He had refused to fight in the First World War. In this thoughtful, compelling and poignant book, Will Ellsworth-Jones tells the remarkable and little-known story of courageous men like Bert Brocklesby, who defied both brutal incomprehension from the military, and white feathers waved at them in the street, to leave a lasting legacy: the freedom to voice unpopular beliefs and to challenge those who decide to take us to war. 'A fascinating and frightening story of an army very nearly out of control of its political masters' Francis Beckett, Guardian 'A moving and grippingly readable book' Sunday Telegraph

We Will Not Fight

Aurum Press

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Banksy: The Man behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall

BANKSY THE MAN BEHIND THE WALL /ANGLAIS

We Will Not Fight