--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Design cover: alt: 'Great Art Book: Being Alex Diamond' height: 1620 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/being-alex-diamond-art-book/being-alex-diamond.jpg width: 2432 credit: '' date: '2010-03-29T12:30:13Z' description: “Alex Diamond is unseizable as a person and difficult to categorize as an artist, he is more fantasy than reality” and this is his art book... tags: - Alex Diamond - Art Book - Art Photography title: 'Great Art Book: Being Alex Diamond' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/being-alex-diamond-art-book/ --- # Great Art Book: Being Alex Diamond When [I visited Hamburg](/chimp-1010-cupk-hamburg/) some days ago, I got a copy of the “Being Alex Diamond” art book by Jörg from the Heliumcowboys Art Space - Thank you for that! After I wrote that post about [**Alex Diamond**’s](/alex-diamond-demon-circus/) *Demon Circus* exhibition in Barcelona, I’m a big fan of the style and the intentions behind the artworks: > The Alex Diamond project clearly calls attention to the dangers of cultural myths and the process of constructing aesthetic consensus and value, it also makes a tender attack on the vacancy of celebrity culture and the market’s role in determining so-called quality. (Harlan B. Levey) I love Diamond’s genderless, ageless and nation-less characters and considered myself for that reason to be tattooed with one of his/ her drawings...For more info about Alex, visit [alexdiamond.de](http://demoncatcher.com/). Here are some insights from the *Being Alex Diamond* art book. You could [get your issue](http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3940558435?ie=UTF8&tag=berlinstreeta-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=3940558435), if you are interested in this contemporary art! ![alex diamond book]() alex diamond book ![alex diamond art]() alex diamond art ![alex diamond art book]() alex diamond art book