Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York

Craig Castleman

$40.00

Publication Date: April 26th, 1984

Publisher:

The MIT Press

ISBN:

9780262530514

Pages:

206

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"Getting Up" is the term used by graffiti "artists" to describe their success in making their mark on the New York subway system. Through candid interviews, New Yorker Craig Castleman documents the inside story of the lives and activities of these young graffitists.

Praise for Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York

A concise descriptive history of subway graffiti...well organized, informative and well illustrated....No matter if one judges subway graffiti to be art or pollution, one comes away from Getting Up admiring the ingenuity of the young writers.—Robert R. Harris, The New York Times Book Review—

Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York

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