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Uptown & Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
Alan Bortman
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Description for Uptown & Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ACXJ; AFJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 319 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1082.
New York graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using transit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23 A 32 MTA maps with their personal tags and graphicsaechoing the heyday of New York train graffiti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than 100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters' artistic evolution and style. Like a dynamic ... Read more
New York graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using transit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23 A 32 MTA maps with their personal tags and graphicsaechoing the heyday of New York train graffiti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than 100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters' artistic evolution and style. Like a dynamic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1082g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764350979
SKU
V9780764350979
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Alan Bortman
Alan Bortman lives in the greater Boston area. He is the curator of DirtyPilot.com, an urban art and graffiti art store featuring well-known and underground artists.
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