Writing The Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
In the early 1980s, 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, Latino and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired compositions.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was among the best known of these emerging artists. He and his fellow creators – including A-One, Fab Five Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee and Toxic – became avant-garde leaders infiltrating and reshaping the predominantly white art world. This book captures the energy, inventiveness, and resistance unleashed when Hip-Hop went ‘all city’.
200 pages // Hardcover // 200 colour illustrations // 250mm x 270mm // 2020