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28 reviews
Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant

Holt Paperbacks, 1988

THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE FOR A WHILE BUT NOW I'M 34
Subway Art. What can I say? This, Style Wars, Beat Street, Break Dance... they all had their influence on me (& a whole generation) back in the day. Hip Hop isn't what it used to be, though. Most of what we hear these days is mixed up with R'n'B, commercialised, repackaged and shipped for your dissatisfaction. If you ask me... when it comes to Hip Hop, stick with the old school. I was ...

Subway Art.
Martha; Henry Chalfant Cooper

Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, 2002

Spraycan Art (Street Graphics / Street Art)

19 reviews
Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff

Thames & Hudson, 1987

A work of major significance
As a public art historian, I recently revisited Spraycan Art. I am told that the sales on this book are approaching 200,000 copies. In 1987 it was the first look at the art form as it traveled out of the NYC subways and around the world and although writers today are more sophisticated with their mastery of the spray can and the imagery they create, the book is still very current in its look at ...

Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution
Cedar Lewisohn

Abrams, 2008

Over the last decade, street art—art made in public spaces including graffiti, stickers, stencil art, and wheat-pasting— has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti-writing tradition of the 1980s through the work of artists such as Banksy and Futura 2000, it has long since reached the mainstream. Street Art is the first measured, critical ...

Burners
Henry Chalfant

Graff it ! productions, 2007

Street Art
Cedar Lewisohn

Tate Publishing, 2008

Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

Duke University Press, 2007

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians, ...