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Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color

By (author) Uri McMillan

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In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan focuses on model and musician Grace Jones, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, and their orbit of friends, showing how they restlessly moved across genres and disciplines, transgressing boundaries between the commercial and the avant-garde. Bypassing the exclusive art world and cultivating uniquely personal styles, these artists thrived on friendship and collaboration in their experimental use of bold color, gold lamÉ, and Instamatic photography. McMillan transports readers to the spaces Jones, Lopez, and Burrows frequented and worked, from hair salons, nondescript artist studios, and buzzy boutiques to funky discos and high fashion runways. By foregrounding their impact on the decade’s aesthetics, McMillan complicates and expands the understanding of these artists, offering a new vision of New York’s art world in sultry, bombastic color.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming. We are not accepting backorders for this item yet
Publisher | Duke University Press
Published date | 31 Oct 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 248
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 445g
ISBN | 978-1-4780-3251-9
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