{"title":"B-Boy Abstracts\u0000 1","authors":"Jacob Kimvall, Carlos Mare","doi":"10.1386/ghhs_00030_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ghhs_00030_1","url":null,"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\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":395273,"journal":{"name":"Global Hip Hop Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127738440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}