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Wild Drawing (WD), Context and Content: The Art of WD. Edited by Kostis Kourelis. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

Wild Drawing (WD) is the leading figure in Athens’ street art scene that blossomed in the 2010s. His distinctive style of realism, anamorphic perspective, and classical aesthetics has won him international recognition and commissions throughout the world. This well illustrated volume features WD’s major works accompanied by interpretive essays by historians, urbanists, curators, artists, and conservators. It is the first scholarly monograph on the work of a Greek street artist. A native of Bali, WD introduced to European art a unique perspective of the immigrant outsider. His work tackles environmental injustice in the global South, capitalist exploitation, and class inequalities. Versed in multiple mythic traditions, WD’s work provides hope for a better future. 

With contributions by Konstantinos Avramidis, Maria Chatzidakis, Sofia Fragkiskou, Panos Leventis, Dewa Nyoman Ketha, Kostis Kourelis, and Julia Tulke.

Kostis Kourelis is an architectural historian and archaeologist. His fieldwork focuses on settlements, landscapes, and vernacular buildings in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has excavated in Italy, Tunisia, and Ukraine and currently directs field projects on the archaeology of migration in Greece and the US. He has published on a variety of topics including migrant heritage, vernacular architecture, medieval landscapes, punks, poets, and philhellenes. He has contributed to Punk Archeology (2014) and Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean (2022) published by the Digital Press of the University of North Dakota. He is associate professor of art history at Franklin & Marshall and lives in Philadelphia.