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Title: Interview with JS, Gary and other graffiti artists
Date: 198?
Physical Details: 1 sound cassette ; 47 min., 28 sec.
Description: Jack Stewart interviews a group of graffiti artists. Conversation is lively and loud at times. Discussion topics include recollections and stories about graffiti artists' schooling, group and gang affiliations, and relationships between individual artists and groups. Also discussed is the importance and significance of graffiti as an assertion of identity for immigrants and other minority populations, effects of graffiti art in culture worldwide, and an article about graffiti in the New York Magazine on March 26, 1973. Notes copied from the tape: Graffiti; JS, X Vandils..., Gary, Hispanic Savage Ones Brooklyn. Interviewees are not introduced on the recording. Their naming relies on notes copied from the tape.
Creator: Stewart, Jack Thomas, 1926-2005
Forms part of: Jack Stewart papers, 1926-2010
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: and Jack Thomas Stewart. Interview with JS, Gary and other graffiti artists, 198?. Jack Stewart papers, 1926-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 25998