An Urban History: The Influence of Street Gangs on Contemporary Art

The influence of street culture on art in Los Angeles has been systematically underrepresented by academia and art history. Although scholarly research has traced the origin of gang graffiti from the 1930s on, this aesthetic has been largely absent from the dialogue about the shaping of modern art. By Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre.
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