graffiti:1 09.10.09

city form: history/culture

 
Though the origins of graffiti can be traced to other major American cities, this mode of expression gained its true momentum in the New York of the early 1970s, in the streets of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. The late 1970s and early 1980s was a period of significant transition within the graffiti movement, a period in which it gained recognition as part of a larger culture and moved beyond the city limits and the nation’s borders. The art world began to take an interest in graffiti with new galleries opening dedicated almost exclusively to graffiti artists. In order to demonstrate the contemporary vitality of graffiti as well as its diversity of forms and styles, the Fondation Cartier asked ten artists from different countries to create works and ephemeral installations specifically for the exhibition.city_plate-new_york.htmlhttp://fondation.cartier.com/http://fondation.cartier.com/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
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