Richard Hambleton : Rizzoli International Publications : 9780847871254 : 0847871258 : 28 Jun 2022 : The first definitive career retrospective of the visionary underground godfather of street art at the center of New York's 1980s urban art scene. Richard Hambleton (1954?2017) was a Canadian artist known for his pioneering street art. He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s, which also included his close friends Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.    As a conceptual artist, Hambleton's early work instal-lations titled ?Image Mass Murder? from 1976?1979 were secretly placed onto streets in over 15 cities, depicting chalk-body outlines and blood-splattered crime scenes of what appeared to be ?victims.? This theme of a prevailing violence, fear, and morbid curiosity elicited surprise and anxiety from its unsuspecting vie