Amsterdam Graffiti 1981

By L. Koomans & P. Lemin, Nokkio & Hitzerot, Second Edition limited to 100 copies. 68 pages, 14,8 x 21 cm. Condition : Excellent.

120€

Graffiti in Amsterdam has an unique status compared to most European cities where namewriting in public became a New York influenced movement in the 1980s. In the Dutch capital writing has a history dating back to the sixties when political conflicts also left traces on the cities walls as slogans and messages. Based on that groundwork the 1970s punk scene discovered public space not only as place to advertise concerts and favorite bands, but also to develop individual nicknames and logos and the term of “getting up” might best fit to describe what was happening years before NYC graffiti reached the Netherlands.