LC control no. | n 2008050800 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (Gang) |
Variant(s) | Motherfuckers (Gang) Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (Gang) UAWMF |
See also | Predecessor: Black Mask (Group of artists) |
Beginning date | 1968 |
Located | New York (N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Anarchism and art |
Found in | Up against the wall motherf**ker, c2008: ecip galley (Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, commonly known as Motherfuckers; an anarchist street gang) Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, 2011: t.p. (Black Mask) p. 4 of cover (founded in New York City in the mid-1960s by self-educated ghetto kid and painter Ben Morea; nourished ideas and inspiration of Dada and the Surrealists with the anarchism of the Durruti Column from the Spanish Revolution; the group intervened in the art, politics, and culture of their times; by 1968 it dissolved into "The Family", popularly known as Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers) Up against the real, 2023: CIP page 5, etc. (Black Mask, art activism group, started in New York City in late 1966, mutated into Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (UAWMF) in 1968, a dadaist anarchist affinity group) |