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Futura : the artist's monograph

Title: Futura : the artist's monograph / introduction by Carlo McCormick ; text by Virgil Abloh [and others].
Author: Futura 2000
Publication: New York : Rizzoli, 2020.

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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf. As the commercialization of street culture in the 1990s inspired collaborations with fashion and lifestyle brands, Futura's work moved toward a more refined expression of his abstract graffiti style. Commissions from era-defining brands such as A Bathing Ape, Stussy, Supreme, and Mo' Wax saw his artwork canonized as an elemental component of the street aesthetic. Collected here, among never-before-published reproductions of earlier paintings and drawings, is an archive of personal photography and ephemera that reveals how integral Futura has been to the evolution of street art and culture. Guided through more than forty years of work, and with interviews with key players in Futura's career, this is at once a definitive monograph of a legend of contemporary art and an indispensable chapter in the history of graffiti.

Alternative Title

Artist's monograph

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Genre/Form

Catalogs.
Pictorial works.

Call Number

JQG 22-225

ISBN

0847866025
9780847866021

OCLC

1110441561

Author

Futura 2000, artist.

Title

Futura : the artist's monograph / introduction by Carlo McCormick ; text by Virgil Abloh [and others].

Publisher

New York : Rizzoli, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

McCormick, Carlo, writer of introduction.

Abloh, Virgil, 1980-2021, writer of added textual content.

Research Call Number

JQG 22-225

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