- ISSN: 2632-6825
- E-ISSN: 2632-6833
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oa B-Boy Abstracts1
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Authors:
Jacob Kimvall1
and Carlos Mare2
- Source: Global Hip Hop Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, Jun 2021, p. 7 - 13
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- 14 Apr 2022
- 14 May 2022
- 01 Jun 2021
Abstract
B-Boy Abstracts is an artistic project started in 2005 by artist and scholar Carlos Mare (alias Mare139). The project connects the graffiti/style writing tradition with high-end modernist art history as well as the art of breaking, and where the artist is rethinking breaking as a form of abstract art, as sculpture, drawing, painting and graphic prints. The text is an artistic statement by Mare139 on the background of B-Boy Abstracts, and on how he has looked to modernist art history in his quest of finding a language to visualize hip hop’s dance elements.
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