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Beschreibung
Graffiti's avant-garde nature and transgressive relationship with private property challenge art norms. Born in the 1960s, it reached a fever pitch in 1990s New York after the end of the train era in 1989. Artists adapted, using the streets and architecture to combat alienation. It became a high-stakes game, blending aesthetics and lifestyle into a global blueprint that reconnected art with the pulse of human existence.

These artists are modern-day tricksters with a deliberate counterpoint to an ordered art world. Focusing on the 1990s-a decade of unpredictability and innovation-this book traces graffiti's evolution and its sensibilities within broader social currents. Through striking visuals and incisive text, we follow their vanguard's vision of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. Accompanied by the vanguard's stories, commentary and their artworks from private collections, this is the groundbreaking chronicle of an era that redefined the rules of art.

Hugo Martinez (1951, New York) is the director of the Martinez Gallery in New York, the premiere showcase for the vanguard of the graffiti movement since 1972. Martinez has documented the graffiti movement since its inception and is the foremost authority on its evolution. Over the years, he maintained galleries, nomadic venues and art-based clinics throughout New York City.
Graffiti's avant-garde nature and transgressive relationship with private property challenge art norms. Born in the 1960s, it reached a fever pitch in 1990s New York after the end of the train era in 1989. Artists adapted, using the streets and architecture to combat alienation. It became a high-stakes game, blending aesthetics and lifestyle into a global blueprint that reconnected art with the pulse of human existence.

These artists are modern-day tricksters with a deliberate counterpoint to an ordered art world. Focusing on the 1990s-a decade of unpredictability and innovation-this book traces graffiti's evolution and its sensibilities within broader social currents. Through striking visuals and incisive text, we follow their vanguard's vision of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. Accompanied by the vanguard's stories, commentary and their artworks from private collections, this is the groundbreaking chronicle of an era that redefined the rules of art.

Hugo Martinez (1951, New York) is the director of the Martinez Gallery in New York, the premiere showcase for the vanguard of the graffiti movement since 1972. Martinez has documented the graffiti movement since its inception and is the foremost authority on its evolution. Over the years, he maintained galleries, nomadic venues and art-based clinics throughout New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 496 S.
1000 Fotos
ISBN-13: 9783775761635
ISBN-10: 3775761632
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: CASE2/CAYPER/COST et al
Redaktion: Martinez Gallery
Nato
Dip
Becker, Danielle
Monaghan, Kevin
Zaya, Octavio
Martinez, Hugo
Herausgeber: Martinez Gallery/NATO/DIP et al
Hersteller: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: HATJE CANTZ VERLAG GmbH, Mommsenstr. 27, D-10629 Berlin, contact@hatjecantz.de
Abbildungen: 1000 Fotos
Maße: 215 x 306 x 49 mm
Von/Mit: Martinez Gallery (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2026
Gewicht: 2,66 kg
Artikel-ID: 135737203

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