The wide world of graffiti

This important co-publication with the Graffiti Museum chronicles the global graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970s, through street and train painting in the 1980s, to its establishment as an artistic genre admired in museums and sold internationally. 'auction.

Featuring hundreds of previously unpublished photographs of graffiti art from the 1970s to the present, many provided exclusively for this volume by the artists themselves, the book offers an insider's view through multiple interviews with celebrated graffiti artists, including Roger Smith by Sane Smith, Hotboy Hert, DESA, Shirt King Phade, RIME, MadC, Saber, AURA and more.

Told through essays, hundreds of images and artist interviews – both underground outlaws and writers gone mainstream – The Wide World of Graffiti will become the standard-bearer for the history and life of this art form today, a unique contribution from the first and only museum dedicated to graffiti as an art form.