The Wide World of Graffiti

Alan Ket

The Wide World of Graffiti
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Monacelli Press
Country
United States
Published
21 June 2023
Pages
384
ISBN
9781580936019

The Wide World of Graffiti

Alan Ket

A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s 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 1970s, through the street and train painting of the 1980s, 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 1970s 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.

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