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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 × 32 MTA maps with their personal tags and graphicsechoing 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 piece book, or sketchbook, this collection is an exclusive sampling of the painters'' signature strokes and tags in portable form. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as a springboard from the fleeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of the international art gallery circuit.

Uptown Downtown

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      Publisher Schiffer Publishing Ltd
      Published 28 May 2016
      ISBN-13 9780764350979
      978-0764350979
      ISBN-10 764350978
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 × 32 MTA maps with their personal tags and graphicsechoing 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 piece book, or sketchbook, this collection is an exclusive sampling of the painters'' signature strokes and tags in portable form. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as a springboard from the fleeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of the international art gallery circuit.

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