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Rammellzee was an enigmatic yet key figure in the nexus of creative forces that defined New York City s heady downtown scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the first major monograph on the multi-hyphenate artist, his inspired vision and wildly diverse artistic output are considered in depth. The…
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The summer I finished my PhD, I had the feeling that I had made a huge mistake—the mistake being I hadn’t written my whole doctorate on the life and work of Rammellzee, the pioneering artist and mythical graffiti writer who had died aged just 49 the year before. A game-changing innovator who combined literature, music, performance, sculpture, and fashion to produce an avant-garde art practice that is still influential today, Rammellzee showed what was possible when graffiti was truly unshackled and set free.
Whilst it was too late for me to go back in time and restart my PhD, thankfully,…
From Rafael's list on The best books on graffiti (for art lovers and urbanists alike).
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