Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

by Hua Hsu, Dakota DeVos, J. Faith Almiron

How hip-hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York

In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti began to transition 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, Latinx and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878468714
• ISBN13: 9780878468713
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 10.7"