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Writing the future : Basquiat and the hip-hop generation

Title
Writing the future : Basquiat and the hip-hop generation / edited by Liz Munsell and Greg Tate ; with contributions by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, and Carlo McCormick.
Author
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988
Publication
  • Boston, Mass. : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Munsell, Liz
  • Tate, Greg
  • Almiron, J. Faith
  • DeVos, Dakota
  • Hsu, Hua, 1977-
  • McCormick, Carlo
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami, host institution.
Description
199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
Summary
In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti transitioned 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, ERO, Fab 5 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'.00Exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (05.04.-02.08.2020).
Subject
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 > Exhibitions
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 > Influence > Exhibitions
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988
  • Street art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
  • Graffiti artists > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
  • Hip-hop in art
  • Hip-hop > Influence
  • Graffiti artists
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Street art
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Writing the future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop generation, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
  • "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: April 5 - August 2, 2020. Pérez Art Museum Miami: September 18, 2020 - February 14, 2021."
  • Artists include: A-One (Anthony Clark) ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; ERO (Dominique Philbert) ; Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) ; Futura (Lenny McGurr), aka Futura 2000 ; Keith Haring ; Kool Koor (Charles William Hargrove Jr.) ; LA2 (Angel Ortiz), aka LAII, Little Angel, and L.A. Rock ; Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara) ; Lee Quiñones, aka Lee ; Rammellzee ; Toxic (Torrick Ablack).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Director's foreword -- In the beginning was the word: an origin story / Carlo McCormick -- Heroism, gangsterism: the languages of post-graffiti art / Liz Munsell -- Beat bop: record of a moment / Hua Hsu -- We are the upsetters: the social consciousness of Basquiat and Rammellzee / J. Faith Almiron -- Hip-hop's Afrofuturistic hive mind / Greg Tate -- Timeline of exhibitions -- Artist biographies -- Notes -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.
Call Number
JMF 23-82
ISBN
  • 9780878468713
  • 0878468714
LCCN
2019955618
OCLC
1120099490
Author
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988, artist.
Title
Writing the future : Basquiat and the hip-hop generation / edited by Liz Munsell and Greg Tate ; with contributions by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, and Carlo McCormick.
Publisher
Boston, Mass. : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Munsell, Liz, editor.
Tate, Greg, editor.
Almiron, J. Faith, contributor.
DeVos, Dakota, contributor.
Hsu, Hua, 1977- contributor.
McCormick, Carlo, contributor.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.
Pérez Art Museum Miami, host institution.
Research Call Number
JMF 23-82
Sc+ F 21-328
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