开始跟随一个开创性的展览，这本书是第一个专门关注1980年代的纽约艺术。再结合今天的许多国际知名的艺术家相对于城市环境的塑造和启发他们。充满活力的和重要的，不和谐的，甚至淫秽的，上世纪1980年代的纽约艺术产生一些世界最知名的当代艺术特性。在那十年间艺术家出现在拍卖会上并刷新了记录，现在是成熟的时代进行复查。较变成一个很酷的讽刺，对媒体文化，消费主义，漫画和街头艺术的反思，这里收集的作品重新创造了坚韧不拔的纽约让他更紧张而活力。这本书的丰富插图作品由十年来最批判主义的艺术家们呈现：其中包括让 - 米歇尔·巴斯奎特，罗斯布莱克纳，弗朗切斯科·克莱门特，艾瑞克·费舍尔，南·戈尔丁，彼得·哈雷，凯斯哈林，珍妮•霍尔泽，杰夫·昆斯，芭芭拉·克鲁格，谢里·莱文罗伯特·隆戈，罗伯特·梅普尔索普，艾伦·麦科勒姆，理查德•普林斯，大卫·沙利，肯尼·沙佛，朱利安施纳贝尔，辛迪·舍曼，唐纳德·苏丹，菲利普·塔弗，安迪·沃霍尔，和克里斯托弗羊毛。

Setto accompany a groundbreaking exhibition, this volume is the first to focusexclusively on New York’s 1980s art scene, reuniting many of today’s internationally renowned artists in relation to the urban context that shaped and inspired them. Vibrant and vital, discordant and even obscene, the New Yorkart scene of the 1980s gave rise to some of the contemporary art world’s most recognizable features. As the artists who emerged in that decade now set records at auction, the era is ripe to be reexamined. Representing in turns acool irony, reflections on media culture, consumerism, cartoons, and streetart, the work collected here re-creates the tense energy of a grittier New York. This volume is richly illustrated with works by the decade’s most criticallyacclaimed artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, Peter Halley, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer,Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe,Allan McCollum, Richard Prince, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel,Cindy Sherman, Donald Sultan, Philip Taaffe, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool.