{"product_id":"uptown-downtown-9780764350979","title":"Uptown  Downtown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew  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.","brand":"Schiffer Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884545880407,"sku":"9780764350979","price":28.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780764350979.jpg?v=1722532452","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uptown-downtown-9780764350979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}