The Wide World of Graffiti

Hachette

The Wide World of Graffiti

  • $75

A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves.

This major co-publication with the Museum of Graffiti chronicles the worldwide graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970s, through the street and train painting of the 1980s, to its emergence as an artistic genre admired in museums and sold at auction.

Featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of graffiti art from the 1970s to today, many provided exclusively for this volume by the artists themselves, the book offers an insider’s view through interviews with celebrated graffiti artists, including Roger Smith of Sane Smith, Hotboy Hert, DESA, Shirt King Phade, RIME, MadC, Saber, AURA, and others.

Through essays, hundreds of images, and interviews with artists—from underground outlaws to writers who have entered the mainstream—The Wide World of Graffiti stands as a unique contribution to the history and contemporary life of an art form, from the first and only museum dedicated to graffiti as an art form.