Catalogue of the groundbreaking exhibition of graffiti and graffiti-influenced work, an early challenge to art-world distinctions between high and low visual culture.
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Price: $250.00
"It is because of the essentially outlaw nature of true graffiti that they are considered disturbing to so many members of society."
With an introduction by curator Rolando Castellón and an essay by former graffitist Pearlstein, asserting a chain of historical antecedents for graffiti from the cave art of Lascaux all the way to modern advertising billboards by way of Duchamp and Picasso's Guernica. Represented artists – both graffitists and traditional painters, sculptors, and photographers who "share in embracing and projecting the reality of graffiti" – include Ed Ruscha, Ed Kerns, Carlos Villa, Casper Banjo, Annie Philbin, Robert Rauschenberg, and numerous others. Increasingly scarce, especially in collectible condition.
Read more: SFMOMA Oral history Project, Interview with Rolando Castellón.
First edition. (San Francisco): San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (1978). 10'' x 8''. Original pictorial wrappers. Black and white plates throughout. Slightly thumbed at corners. Mild toning. Overall sound.
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