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Dondi White : Style Master General: The by Michael White and Andrew Witten (2001, Hardcover)

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"In the beginning, there was the Word. It was persona and place, form and content, truth and fiction. -- from the Foreword The dominance of the graffiti aesthetic in contemporary culture is undeniable.

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"In the beginning, there was the Word. On the streets and in the yards, the word was the Name. And the name was everything. It was persona and place, form and content, truth and fiction. The name was an act of self-invention, a pure visual manifestation, through alter ego, alias, and nom de plume, of personal expressions in the public realm. The name was a line and the line begat the Mark. Then, in the great style wars toward the end of the second millennium, medium, meaning, and message were joined in a golden era where the name became the source and signifier of Style. And when the name became wild style, the word was Dondi." -- from the Foreword The dominance of the graffiti aesthetic in contemporary culture is undeniable. But how did an art form spawned in the train yards of 1970s New York achieve the ubiquity it now enjoys at every level of the mass-media landscape? There are many answers to the question, but one major factor is indisputable: Dondi White. Coming of age in hardscrabble East New York in the early 1970s, Dondi White unknowingly began the process of introducing a whole new artistic dialect into the cacophony of the American art scene. His train pieces painted from roughly 1977 to 1982 stand as some of the most influential works ever committed to Transit Authority steel. Writing with legendary partners such as DURO, NOC 167, KID 56, KEL 139, and FUZZ ONE, Dondi created some of graffiti art's most enduring iconography. His pieces just don't stop -- and neither do the aliases. From the badass Mr. Whites to the cocky, self-satisfied Busses, from the nasty Pres to the perfect, vicious Rolls, Dondi straight killed it, again and again. Works like Children of the Grave Part 2 and Mr White + Bev remain benchmark pieces for graffiti aficionados the world over. In the 1980s, partially through his collaborations with noted photographers Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper, Dondi White's work entered the rarefied world of fine art. In making the transition from subway car to canvas, Dondi retained his unfaltering sense of letter form and balance, and his paintings remain a testament to the clarity of his aesthetic. Dondi's canvases were subsequently shown in galleries from New York to Amsterdam to Tokyo and beyond, influencing a new generation of young artists and introducing an indigenous American art form to the rest of the world. Dondi White: Style Master General presents the life and work of a seminal -- yet heretofore overlooked -- American artist whose work has resonated on every level of our popular culture. Filled with rare photographs, original sketches, unpublished interview materials, and testimony from some of Dondi's closest cohorts, here, finally, is the full story. At the time of his death in 1998, Dondi had seen the majority of his work destroyed -- scraped off, painted over, or chemically removed from the steel upon which it thrived. Within these pages, however, it still speaks volumes.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060394277
ISBN-13
9780060394271
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1924603

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Book Title
Dondi White : Style Master General: the
Author
Andrew Witten, Michael White
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Graffiti & Street Art, Popular Culture, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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10in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
33.8 Oz

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2001
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Trade
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Yes

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by dart_adamsDec 01, 2020
Must own rare classic book about a graffiti legend
I’ve wanted to own this book for close to 20 years now and it lived up to and surpassed my expectations. It is a must own/essential book for anyone into Hip Hop culture.
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by euroghostOct 02, 2006
the great one
i liked teh way dondi was postrayed as not just a graffiti artist, but a general master of all things art. I lovexd the killer pictures and graf paintings. I disliked the size of the book I like smaller easier to carry around books.i decided to buy it because i love the genre and subject.

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