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"All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora" by Andrea Caputo

Item Number
380
Estimated Value
50 USD
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Item Description

All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora by Andrea Caputo

The fascinating story of graffiti and how it was exported from New York.

The title describes a vast research on the Writing movement, focusing particularly on the process of its exportation from New York to all of Europe during the '80s. The first part analyzes how graffiti in media such as movies, videos, magazines, and books from New York influenced Europe. When images of the New York subway arrived in London, Paris, Munich, and Amsterdam, a huge milestone was set: A first generation of European graffiti writers started to follow the letters, the method, the techniques, and the general lifestyle of New York in the '70s.

The book, a massive volume of more than 400 pages, has been conceived as an imaginary newspaper. The chronicles it contains have not been penned by real journalists or narrators but by people who define themselves as 'writers.' In this volume, a chorus of uncensored voices in the first person reveal their knowledge of European cities, their infrastructures, interstices, and neighborhoods. This is the generation who, in the last two decades of the 20th Century, imported the countercultural phenomenon from New York commonly known as 'Graffiti.'

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9782859800161
  • Publisher: AMMO Books, LLC
  • Publication date: 4/1/2012
  • Pages: 408
  • Product dimensions: 9.70 (w) x 13.20 (h) x 1.50 (d)
  • Softcover

Meet the Author

In concurrence to his studies in Graphic Design and Architecture, Andrea Caputo has undertaken a personal study of street culture and the consequent social and aesthetic influences, actively participating in the International Writing movement with the publication of editorial and expository projects.

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