Taking the Train : : How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City / / Joe Austin.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth cre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classic Editions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 40 illus (23 in color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. A Tale of Two Cities
- 2. Taking the Trains: The Formation and Structure of "Writing Culture" in the Early 1970s
- 3. Writing "Graffiti" in the Public Sphere: The Construction of Writing as an Urban Problem
- 4. Repainting the Trains: The New York School of the 1970s
- 5. The State of the Subways: The Transit Crisis, the Aesthetics of Fear, and the Second "War on Graffiti"
- 6. Writing Histories
- 7. Retaking the Trains
- 8. The Walls and the World:Writing Culture, 1982-1990
- Conclusion: A Spot on the Wall
- Appendix: Sources from Writers
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index