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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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Additional Authors
  • McCormick, Carlo
  • Abloh, Virgil, 1980-2021
Description
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs.
  • Pictorial works.
Call Number
NC139.F88
ISBN
  • 0847866025
  • 9780847866021
LCCN
40031007424
OCLC
  • on1110441561
  • 1110441561
  • SCSB-14078434
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries