Art in the streets

Deitch, Jeffrey, (compiler.). Gastman, Roger, (compiler.). Rose, Aaron, (compiler.). Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), (host institution.). Brooklyn Museum, (host institution.).

Summary: A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

Record details

ISBN: 9780847869756
ISBN: 084786975X
ISBN: 9780847836178
ISBN: 0847836177
ISBN: 9780847836482
ISBN: 0847836487
Physical Description: print
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli ; Los Angeles, CA : MOCA, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Accompanies the exhibition ... presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 17 April-8 August 2011, and at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 30 March-8 July 2012"--Colophon.

Formatted Contents Note:

Art in the streets / Jeffrey Deitch -- The writing on the wall / Carlo McCormick -- New York. The birth of Wild style / Charlie Ahearn, Patti Astor, Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quiñones, with Jeffrey Deitch and Carlo McCormick ; "Rapture" / Fab 5 Freddy ; Futura / talks with Fab 5 Freddy ; Martin Wong / Carlo McCormick ; Characters / Todd James ; Rammellzee / Fab 5 Freddy ; Samo/Jean-Michel Basquiat / Fab 5 Freddy ; Keith Haring / Jeffrey Deitch ; Dark angels of dust : David Hammons and the art of streetwise transcendentalism / Greg Tate ; Dash Snow/IRAK / Kathy Grayson ; Swoon / talks with Lydia Yee -- Los Angeles. Cholo graffiti / Chaz Bojórquez, Gusmano Cesaretti, Estevan Oriol, with Cheech Marin ; Mister Cartoon / talks with Brian Grazer ; From yards to heavens / Eklips, Prime, Risk, Slick, Soon, Wisk, with Zio Fulcher and Roger Gastman ; Skate and destroy / Shepard Fairey, Craig R. Stecyk III, with Aaron Rose -- San Francisco. Barry McGee / talks with Aaron Rose ; Margaret Kilgallen / Jeffrey Deitch ; Monikers / Bill Daniel -- São Paulo. Os Gemeos talk about how they became artists -- London. Malcolm McLaren / Carlo McCormick ; Banksy -- Paris, Bologna, Munich, Athens, Ghent. André / talks with Aaron Rose ; Street art as a threshold phenomenon / Diedrich Diederichsen -- Tokyo. Fashion hits the streets / Hiroshi Fujiwara, Nigo, Stash, Jun Takahashi, with Fraser Cooke.