Arte di Frontiera : New York Graffiti

Edition : First / Milan / Gabriele Mazzotta / 1984 / Softcover. / VG+
Small 4to. 96pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous colour plates. Text in Italian and English.

“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…” WIth Jean Michel Basquiat, Crash, Fab Freddy, Futura 2000, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, Rammellzee and more.

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