Margo Thompson

The first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement progressed and tags became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity and unconventional media captured the attention of the world. Featuring gallery and street works by several contributors to the graffiti scene, this book offers insight into the lives of urban artists, describes their relationship with the bourgeois art world, and discusses their artistic motivation with unprecedented sensitivity.

Дата выхода: май 2017

Das vorliegende Buch prsentiert eine neue Analyse der Verbindungen zwischen dem Kunstgenre Graffiti und dem Werk Jean-Michel Basquiats und spricht insofern sicherlich ein breites Publikum an. Es gibt gegenwrtig nur uerst wenige Studien zu dieser Thematik, was diese originelle Analyse umso wichtiger macht. Der Autor analysiert den vergleichbaren Hintergrund der Graffiti-Knstler und Basquiats, hebt gleichzeitig jedoch auch die Unterschiede hervor, die Basquiat internationale Berhmtheit verschafften, whrend der Groteil der Graffiti-Knstler anonym geblieben ist.

Дата выхода: ноябрь 2013

Depuis le dbut des annes 1970, les graffeurs dcorent l’extrieur des rames de mtro avec des tags toujours plus grands et toujours plus labors. Dans le schma primitiviste, les graffeurs, en tant qu’artistes en marge, offraient de nouvelles perspectives la socit amricaine. Ils tendaient un miroir la culture hgmonique. Les rfrences aux mdias ou des elements culturels que les artistes intgraient dans leurs crations revtent aujourd’hui une importance toute particulire, parce qu’elles reprsentent un point de contact entre les cultures et ont rendu cette « sousculture » plus accessible son nouveau public. Cette forme d’expression rsolument rebelle est ici analyse par Margo Thompson qui met en relation l’art du graffiti avec l’art...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

The first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement progressed and tags became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity and unconventional media captured the attention of the world. Featuring gallery and street works by several contributors to the graffiti scene, this book offers insight into the lives of urban artists, describes their relationship with the bourgeois art world, and discusses their artistic motivation with unprecedented sensitivity.

Дата выхода: август 2013