The title, ALL CITY WRITERS, 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. The
first part of the research analyzes how graffiti in media such as
movies, videos, magazines, and books from New York influenced
Europe. 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.
The book, a massive volume of more than 400 pages, 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 'Graffiti.'
At the outset, the obsessive repetition of a tag and the search
for urban fame 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.
The 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 cultural
movement. Through historic and detailed documentation deriving from
a singular urban episode, the New York City Subway, ALL CITY
WRITERS 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.
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