{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Guerrilla Art"],"cover":{"alt":"Urban Intervention Book - Dan Witz","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view1.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2010-06-03T13:15:57Z","description":"Dan Witz is one of street art’s first generation artists. 30 years ago, he started to paint, paste and create in the public space. This is his book...","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDan Witz\u003c/strong\u003e is maybe one of the most powerful street artists on earth. Since the 70’s, the master of fine art and public interventions is active on the streets in New York and other US-American cities.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1979, he started his first large scale street art project by painting over 40 birds in lower Manhattan. In 1994, he wheat pasted about 75 black silkscreens hoodies and in did these brutal but also amazing \u003ca href=\"/dan-witz-dark-doings/\"\u003eDark Doings installations\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are only three stages of his 30 years street art career. You could get a broader impression by clicking through \u003ca href=\"http://www.danwitz.com/index.php?article_id=2\"\u003eDan’s archive\u003c/a\u003e or flipping through \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1584233044?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;tag=berlinstreeta-21\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1638\u0026amp;creative=6742\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0981960065\"\u003ehis new book\u003c/a\u003e, called “In Plain View — 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise”.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the no-wave and DIY movements of New York’s Lower East Side of the 70\u0026rsquo;s, through the Reaganomics of the 80’s to the flourishing of graffiti art in the new millennium. Whether stickers or paste-up silk-screened posters, conceptual pranks and interventions, or beautiful tromp l\u0026rsquo;oeil paintings, the medium is inspired as much by the nature and subject of his art as by the mutating urban conditions in which the piece is executed. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.gingkopress.com/05-str/dan-witz-in-plain-view.html\"\u003epress release\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the way, the streetspot girls recently visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.robotswillkill.com/streetspot/index.php?postID=7272625685093941354\"\u003eDan Witz’s studio\u003c/a\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 2600px; --image-ratio: 2600 / 1504\" data-source-width=\"2600\" data-source-height=\"1504\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1504\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_189b29efb525136b.avif 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_c4883d926d7c5ed8.avif 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_e9e23def3070cb76.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_21067f0f98ece05.webp 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_e1ca5a5de48a2ecd.webp 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_6d30d5ed863874bb.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_2cf74817e5c92f14.jpg\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_ae1c2690a07c0107.jpg 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_4028d03ded7b4c24.jpg 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_hu_2cf74817e5c92f14.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"833\" alt=\"dan witz - in plain view\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003edan witz - in plain view\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n \u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 2600px; --image-ratio: 2600 / 1504\" data-source-width=\"2600\" data-source-height=\"1504\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1504\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_d1693d814b08184d.avif 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_6fbf4450fbd80525.avif 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_e36c13f6b489ed3c.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_85bb06aba52b8c19.webp 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_392f69e30d3cd2c2.webp 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_4afa572f1c6e1b8.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003cimg src=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_e911f4c0824c3d07.jpg\" srcset=\"/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_9cf1a4df910c93f3.jpg 480w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_436cfbd58c7cadd2.jpg 960w, /urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book_hu_e911f4c0824c3d07.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"833\" alt=\"dan witz - in plain view book\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n \u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003edan witz - in plain view book\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e\n\nVia \u003ca href=\"http://blog.vandalog.com/2010/06/dan-witz-in-plain-view-2/\"\u003evandalog.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n**Dan Witz** is maybe one of the most powerful street artists on earth. Since the 70’s, the master of fine art and public interventions is active on the streets in New York and other US-American cities.\n\nIn 1979, he started his first large scale street art project by painting over 40 birds in lower Manhattan. In 1994, he wheat pasted about 75 black silkscreens hoodies and in did these brutal but also amazing [Dark Doings installations](/dan-witz-dark-doings/).\n\nThese are only three stages of his 30 years street art career. You could get a broader impression by clicking through [Dan’s archive](http://www.danwitz.com/index.php?article_id=2) or flipping through [his new book](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1584233044?ie=UTF8\u0026tag=berlinstreeta-21\u0026linkCode=as2\u0026camp=1638\u0026creative=6742\u0026creativeASIN=0981960065), called “In Plain View — 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise”.\n\n\u003e From the no-wave and DIY movements of New York’s Lower East Side of the 70's, through the Reaganomics of the 80’s to the flourishing of graffiti art in the new millennium. Whether stickers or paste-up silk-screened posters, conceptual pranks and interventions, or beautiful tromp l'oeil paintings, the medium is inspired as much by the nature and subject of his art as by the mutating urban conditions in which the piece is executed. ([press release](http://www.gingkopress.com/05-str/dan-witz-in-plain-view.html))\n\nBy the way, the streetspot girls recently visited [Dan Witz’s studio](http://www.robotswillkill.com/streetspot/index.php?postID=7272625685093941354)!\n\n![dan witz - in plain view](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view.jpg\u003e)\n\ndan witz - in plain view ![dan witz - in plain view book](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/dan-witz-in-plain-view_book.jpg\u003e)\n\ndan witz - in plain view book \nVia [vandalog.com](http://blog.vandalog.com/2010/06/dan-witz-in-plain-view-2/).\n","tags":["Dan Witz","Painting","Art Book"],"title":"Urban Intervention Book - Dan Witz","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-intervention-book-dan-witz/"}