This first monograph on the street artist Swoon is a crash course on the
incredible range of her diverse artistic practices. Filled with brilliant color
photographs, the book brings reader to streets around the world to see her
life-size prints and paper cutouts that transform as natural elements slowly
erode and destroy them. It travels across the waters to include striking images
from her most recent projects, Swimming Cities, which show a team of craftsmen
and collaborators scavenging junk to create makeshift steamships that are part
floating artwork, part performance, and part experiments in communal living. And
it brings readers inside her art collective, Toyshop, which orchestrates