KUNSTFORUM International. Band 50. Wilde Bilder: Graffiti und Wandbilder.

(Cologne, Germany): KUNSTFORUM International, 1982. First edition. Softcover. 24 by 16.6cm. 176 pages. One of the earliest and most comprehensive European surveys of graffiti and mural art. The volume examines the wider visual culture of the street, encompassing political murals, façade painting, posters, slogans, public interventions, and the emerging graffiti scenes of New York, Berlin and Zürich. Essays by Walter Grasskamp and others explore the aesthetic, social and legal implications of graffiti as an autonomous artistic practice, while the inclusion of expert opinions prepared for the celebrated Zürich Sprayer court case documents one of the earliest attempts to establish graffiti’s artistic legitimacy. Illustrated throughout. A very good copy of this landmark publication in the early critical literature on graffiti and urban art.