{"product_id":"all-city-writers-the-graffiti-diaspora-9782859800161","title":"All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe title, \u003ci\u003eAll City Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The first part of the research analyzes \u003cb\u003ehow graffiti in media such as movies, videos, magazines, and books from New York influenced Europe\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book, a massive volume of more than \u003cb\u003e400 pages\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 '\u003cb\u003eGraffiti\u003c\/b\u003e.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the outset, the \u003cb\u003eobsessive repetition of a tag\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003esearch for urban fame\u003c\/b\u003e became a widespread and spontaneous act, an infinite ego trip that was rarely dissociated from the reproduction of the chosen letters. In these pages, European writers abandon the compulsive act of tagging for a moment, to narrate the city and cast a personal eye--not always detached--on the trains, the streets, and the urban surroundings that common citizens generally cannot or will not acknowledge. The chapters that compose this book focus on special themes, comparable to the sections of a daily newspaper, presented here as special reports on the New York subway, the European network, or the first urban strongholds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe combination of these elements, including, among others, a detailed, in-depth description of the phenomenon's explosion in Italy during the '90s, provides a unique history of the variety of pathways they explored and documents the desires of an entire generation intent on describing and interpreting their \u003cb\u003ecultural movement\u003c\/b\u003e. Through historic and detailed documentation deriving from a singular urban episode, the New York City Subway, \u003ci\u003eAll City Writers\u003c\/i\u003e wants to investigate the evolution and the consequences of a countercultural phenomenon, which in the last decades has provoked a change in the rules of aesthetics and communication in modern day society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn concurrence to his studies in Graphic Design and Architecture, \u003cb\u003eAndrea Caputo\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kitchen 93","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50367385567506,"sku":"9782859800161","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_067d68de-575b-45df-9448-de457cd406cc.jpg?v=1728491384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-city-writers-the-graffiti-diaspora-9782859800161","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}