Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

by Ivor L. Miller

Hailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aerosol Kingdom explores the origins and aesthetics of graffiti writings.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617036773
• ISBN13: 9781617036774
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"