Description
A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970's to today, as told by the taggers themselves. This major co-publication with the Museum of Graffiti chronicles the worldwide graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970's, through the street and train painting of the 1980's, to its emergence as an artistic genre admired in museums and sold at auction.
With hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of graffiti art from the 1970's to today, many of which have been provided exclusively for this volume by the artists themselves, the book gives an insider's view through multiple interviews with celebrated graffiti artists, including Roger Smith of Sane Smith, Hotboy Hert, DESA, Shirt King Phade, RIME, MadC, Saber, AURA, and others.
Told through essays, hundreds of images, and interviews with the artists—both the underground outlaws and the writers who went mainstream—The Wide World of Graffiti will become the standard-bearer of the art form's history and life today, a unique contribution from the first and only museum dedicated to graffiti as an art form.
Museum Story
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's holdings encompass one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world, and has been a leading voice for groundbreaking artists since 1974.
Details
- Hardcover
- 384 pages, 350 images
- 10" x 8"
- Edited by Alan Ket
- Foreword by OSGEMEOS
