Description
Title: Wij Zijn Gek, Nederlandse Straatkunst In De Jaren Zeventig
Author: Bas Roodnat
Paperback
Published: 1977
Country: The Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Pages: 114
Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 x 0.8 cm. / 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch.
Condition: Cover: 9/10 Inside: 9.5/10 Spine: 8/10
From the publisher:
About four years ago Bas Roodnat started collecting photographically what, while traveling through the Netherlands, he saw in terms of human expressions on walls, fences, on the streets, sheds, warehouses and bridges. Written texts, drawings, complete paintings. So all together wall art, in the beginning mainly very unofficial, later also half or completely official wall art. People like to leave their mark somewhere. If you look at these written or drawn traces in conjunction with each other, you can sometimes come to some nice conclusions. And once you have the taste of paying attention, you can go on endlessly, because we keep writing on the walls.
Wij Zijn Gek, Nederlandse Straatkunst In De Jaren Zeventig (We Are Crazy, Dutch Streetart In The Seventies) is a (black/white) publication on early forms of human expression in the public domain in The Netherlands. The photos in Wij Zijn Gek! are subdivided by theme:
-Binnenlandse politiek (Internal politics)
-Oorlog in de Nieuwmarktbuurt (War in the Nieuwmarkt area)
-Boodschappen (Messages)
-De verliefden (The lovers)
-Buitenlandse politiek (Foreign policy)
-Noem ze maar objecten (Call them objects)
-Reklame (Advertising)
-Muurschilderingen (Murals)
-De wilde plakkers (The wild pasters)
The published photos were taken between 1974 and 1977 by Bas Roodnat and pre-dates the so-called Punk graffiti movement which in turn was the forerunner of what we know today as graffiti and street art.- Timski
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