Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti
- Milano: Gabriele Mazzotta, 1984
Milano: Gabriele Mazzotta, 1984. Minor edgewear to photo-illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Trade version of this influential catalogue, published to commemorate a traveling exhibition of American graffiti art in Italy, a year after the shocking murder of its dynamic curator, Francesca Alinovi. "While in America as in Europe the triumph of tradition and fine painting is being celebrated, out comes the gurgling current of the underground like an impetuous, boiling hot spring. Avant-garde art is not only not dead but has dug up its battle-axe and is beating its tam tam along the lines of the frontier of Manhattan: 1982, escape from New York! The art of the future stares with big, dark wide-open eyes at the centre from the periphery, mixed with the wreckage and rubble of the decaying city..." Thoroughly illustrated, mostly in color; reproducing works from the likes of A One, Donald Baechler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Crash, Fab Freddy, Futura 2000, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer and Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, and Kenny Scharf. With a series of texts from Alinovi— including excerpts from her interviews with A One, Haring, Rammellzee, and Scharf—and a commissioned text from Tony Shafrazi.
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Title
Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti
Author
ALINOVI, Francesca
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Milano: Gabriele Mazzotta
Date
1984