Trespass : a history of uncommissioned urban art / edited by Ethel Seno ; by Carlo McCormick in collaboration with Wooster Collective's Marc and Sara Schiller ; additional texts by Banksy, Anne Pasternak, and J. Tony Serra.

Includes index.

-- Preface : City view / Marc and Sara Schiller -- Introduction : Where angels dare to tread / Carlo McCormick -- Rules of the game -- Conquest of space -- Public memory / private secrets -- Deviant signs, free art, and contra-consumerism -- Environmental reclamations -- Magical thinking -- Non-figuratively speaking -- Urban folk -- Afterword : Just do it / Anne Pasternak -- Appendix : Graffiti and U.S. law / J. Tony Serra.

A history of graffiti and unsanctioned street art explores its local origins and its transformation into a global phenomenon, discussing its outlaw status, key artists, and the spread of self-expression in social spaces.