Richard Mcguire

The fully illustrated book, Richard McGuire: Art for the Street - New York 1978-1982, edited by Todd Alden with a foreword by Luc Sante, with an interview of Richard McGuire by Todd Alden, focuses on two strains of protean artist Richard McGuire's early work: the Ixnae Nix street drawings (1979-81) and his original art created for band posters, including Liquid Liquid, the influential downtown post-punk band in which he played bass and co-founded. For the first time, this book unpacks...
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The fully illustrated book, Richard McGuire: Art for the Street - New York 1978-1982, edited by Todd Alden with a foreword by Luc Sante, with an interview of Richard McGuire by Todd Alden, focuses on two strains of protean artist Richard McGuire's early work: the Ixnae Nix street drawings (1979-81) and his original art created for band posters, including Liquid Liquid, the influential downtown post-punk band in which he played bass and co-founded. For the first time, this book unpacks an untold story from the New York No Wave scene. Before they were discovered and developed into international art stars, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were fans and supporters of Richard McGuire's art; Haring included McGuire's works in numerous exhibitions he curated in the early 1980s, Basquiat included McGuire's music (from Liquid Liquid) in his film "Downtown 81." "For the last forty years," Luc Sante writes, "McGuire has been effortlessly dissolving the border between fine and applied art, in addition to the one between high and low that he vaporized back then along with his contemporaries Basquiat and Haring."