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Taking the Train : How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
by Joe Austin
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Overview
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City pieced together elements of neighborhood name writing and advertising typographies to create a new form of expression displayed on public walls and subways. Nonparticipants called it "graffiti." To the practitioners, it was "writing." Taking the Train traces the history of "writing" in New York City against the backdrop of the struggle that developed between the city and the writers. It tracks the ways in which "writing" became an urban crisis and explains how a small, seemingly meaningless act of rebellion assumed crisis-level importance in the liberal, democratic state of the twentieth century.
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- ISBN-13: 9780231111430
- ISBN-10: 0231111436
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publish Date: January 2002
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 400
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