{"product_id":"aerosol-kingdom-subway-painters-of-new-york-city-paperback","title":"Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvor Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Farris Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, \u003ci\u003eAerosol Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e explores the origins and aesthetics of graffiti writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From a vast array of inherited traditions and gritty urban lifestyles, talented and renegade young New Yorkers spawned a culture of their own, a balloon-lettered shout heralding the coming of hip-hop. Though helpless in checking its spreading appeal, city fathers immediately went on the attack and denounced it as vandalism. Many aficionados, however, recognized its trendy aesthetic immediately. By the 1980s, spray-paint art hit the mainstream, and subway painters, mostly from marginal barrios of the city, became art world darlings. Their proliferating, ephemeral art was spotlighted in downtown galleries, in the media, and thereafter throughout the land. Not only did the practice of \"public signaturing\" take over New York City, but also, as the images moved through the neighborhoods on the subway cars, it also grabbed hold in the suburbs. Soon it stirred worldwide imitation and helped spark the hip-hop revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the artists wielded their spray cans, they expressed their acute social consciousness. \u003ci\u003eAerosol Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e documents their careers and records the reflections of key figures in the movement. It examines converging forces that made aerosol art possible--the immigration of Caribbean peoples, the reinforcing presence of black American working-class styles and fashions, the effects of advertising on children, the mass marketing of spray cans, and the popular protests of the 1960s and 1970s against racism, sexism, classism, and war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The creative period of the movement lasted for over twenty years, but most of the original works have vanished. Official cleanup of public sites erased great pieces of the heyday. They exist now only in photographs, in the artists' sketchbooks, and in \u003ci\u003eAerosol Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvor L. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies Center at Boston University and is author of \u003ci\u003eVoice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with P. Gonz?lez G?mes-C?sseres) of \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Language of the Abaku?\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 10.96 x 8.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460900012285,"sku":"9781617036774","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/WYG5tZPBzz9781617036774.webp?v=1777256421","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/aerosol-kingdom-subway-painters-of-new-york-city-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}