Graffiti de New York (1974)

"Documents by Mervyn Kurlansky & Jon Naar. Text by Norman Mailer", Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1974, first edition (French), unpaginated (approximately 110 pages), large format (34.6 x 26.3 cm). Condition: Excellent (some signs of wear).

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First great book on the subject then nascent and stammering of graffiti in New York. At the very end of the 1960s, New York City cautiously observed a new phenomenon on its walls. Names appear everywhere and even in the metro, written with spray paint or with a marker. Associated with vandalism, with the decay of certain districts plunging into extreme impoverishment, a symbol of perceived insecurity, graffiti is the subject of this journalistic investigation by Norman Mailer. Party to meet the followers of this new style, Mailer offers his readers a fascinating study on the birth of the phenomenon, its significance, and without omitting what he writes in conclusion: “the silent echo of graffiti, the vibrations of this deep unease that they arouse” .