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Product Identifiers
PublisherChronicle Books
ISBN-100811868877
ISBN-139780811868877
eBay Product ID (ePID)70960948
Product Key Features
Edition25
Book TitleSubway Art
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGraffiti & Street Art, Popular Culture, American / General
Publication Year2009
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorMartha Cooper, Henry Chalfant
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight69.8 Oz
Item Length16.8 in
Item Width11.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-075000
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsJONATHAN LETHEM This lavish new edition stunningly reasserts Subway Art \\\'s place as the signal book on the authentic graffiti phenomenon, with pictures you can at last climb into and explore the way devotees of the earlier edition could only dream of., NEW YORK TIMES The 1984 book Subway Art, Ms. Cooper s collaboration with Henry Chalfant, a photographer and filmmaker, captured graffiti s golden and assaultive years. It sold half a million copies, becoming the movement s bible and epitaph. But the best of the trains live on, in an updated, large-format 25th-anniversary edition, to be published next month by Chronicle Books., SHEPARD FAIREY Subway Art is one of the main reasons graffiti became a global phenomenon. For everyone that didn t grow up in New York City and even for those that did, Subway Art became their main source of inspiration., BLADE ONE People from all over the world have wanted to meet me because of Subway Art. There\\\'s no question that this book has changed the course of art history on this planet., OS GEMEOS Brazil was always late getting information about graffiti. We remember the first time we saw \\\"Subway Art\\\" was in 1988 or 89. A friend showed us the book, and we went crazy! He wouldn t leave the book with us, so we made a photocopy... every single small photo was \\\"Big\\\" for us... We ve always been glad for \\\"Subway Art\\\" and its influence on all the writers around the world!
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal751.73097471
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Edition DescriptionAnniversary
SynopsisThis 25th-Anniversary edition features 70 never-before-seen photographs along with all-new introductions that explore the prolific and sometimes tension-filled rise of graffiti, from gritty train yards to galleries worldwide. 150 full-color photos., During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the environment and the imagination of a generation by documenting the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement. Now 25 years and more than a half a million copies later, their bestselling book Subway Art is available in a large-scale, deluxe format heightening the visual impact of their classic images.With 70 additional photographs, and a fresh introduction and afterword, this collector's edition illustrates the passion, creativity and resourcefulness of unlikely kids inventing an art form destined to spread worldwide and spawn the present-day street art movement.