Writing the future : Basquiat and the hip-hop generation /
In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti transitioned from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely black, Latino and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene wit...
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Boston :
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts,
[2020]
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| ISBN: | 9780878468713 0878468714 |
Table of Contents:
- Director's foreword
- In the beginning was the word: an origin story / Carlo McCormick
- Heroism, gangsterism: the languages of post-graffiti art / Liz Munsell
- Beat bop: record of a moment / Hua Hsu
- We are the upsetters: the social consciousness of Basquiat and Rammellzee / J. Faith Almiron
- Hip-hop's Afrofuturistic hive mind / Greg Tate
- Timeline of exhibitions
- Artist biographies
- Notes
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors.