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Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps.cAlan Bortman
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Author: Alan Bortman
Page Count: 128 pages
Published Date: 20 Jun 2016
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Publication Country: Atglen, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780764350979
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: Uptown & Downtown Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
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NewYork graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transferOld Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, usingtransit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23" x 32" MTAmaps with their personal tags and graphicsechoing the heyday of New York traingraffiti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters' artistic evolution andstyle. Like a dynamic "piece book," or sketchbook, this collection isan exclusive sampling of the painters' signature strokes and tags in portableform. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as aspringboard from the fleeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of theinternational art gallery circuit.
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Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps.cAlan Bortman
Author: Alan Bortman
Page Count: 128 pages
Published Date: 20 Jun 2016
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Publication Country: Atglen, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780764350979
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: Uptown & Downtown Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
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NewYork graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transferOld Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, usingtransit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23" x 32" MTAmaps with their personal tags and graphicsechoing the heyday of New York traingraffiti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters' artistic evolution andstyle. Like a dynamic "piece book," or sketchbook, this collection isan exclusive sampling of the painters' signature strokes and tags in portableform. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as aspringboard from the fleeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of theinternational art gallery circuit.
Read online Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps Buy Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps Download and read Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Uptown & Downtown : Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps