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Summary:

For the past 30 years, Shepard Fairey has been using art and graphic design as a means of social interrogation. Drawing from graffiti tradition, Fairey employs a distinctive combination of stylized imagery and impactful typography to address a wide range of social and political themes such as anti-violence, racial and gender equality, and environmental protection. Designed specifically for the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Italy, this collection presents 30 new works, also placing Fairey's body of work in conversation with the artist's own selections from the contemporary art collection at the Capitoline Superintendency. Through this careful curation, readers are able to appreciate Fairey's ability to hone in on imagery that is both topical and timeless, resulting in pieces that inform the public discourse as much as they are inspired by it.

Table of Contents:

• A proposito del dissenso = On dissent / Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli
• Non obbedire = Do not obey / Giuseppe Pizzuto, Giuseppe Ottavianelli
• Shepard Fairey: il suo personale ed esclusivo "art linkage" = The personal and exclusive "art linkage" of Shepard Fairey / Claudio Crescentini
• L'arte è un martello = Art is a hammer / Federica Pirani
• Le iconografie del marginale di Shepard Fairey e le opere della Galleria d'Arte Moderna tra affinità e rimandi nelle pratiche dell'immaginario = Shepard Fairey's iconography of the marginal and works from the Galleria d'Arte Moderna: affinities and references in the practices of the imagination / Arianna Angelelli, Daniela Vasta
• Tavola biografica = Biographical table
• La mostra = The exhibition
• Opere = Works
• Bibliogafia e sitografia ragionate = Selected bibliography and sitography / Francesca Lombardi
• Regesto delle opere in mostra = Exhibition checklist.

Contributors:

Fairey, Shepard

Crescentini, Claudio , editor

Pirani, Federica , editor

Wunderkammern (Gallery) , editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt

Rome (Italy) Galleria d'arte moderna di Roma capitale , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

Italian
English

Language Notes:

Text in Italian with parallel English translation.

Included Works:

Works [of Fairey, S.] (Selections)

Subjects:

Fairey, Shepard — Exhibitions

Street art — Exhibitions

Graphic arts — United States — Exhibitions

Mural painting and decoration — United States — Exhibitions

Painting, Italian — 20th century — Exhibitions

Politics in art

Social problems in art

Fairey, Shepard

1900-1999

Graphic arts

Mural painting and decoration

Painting, Italian

Street art

United States

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy, September 17-November 22, 2020.
Shepard Fairey (1970-), also known as Obey.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-184).

Physical Description:

189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

N6537.F316 A4 2020

ISBNs:

9788836647200
8836647200

OCLC Numbers:

1242545388