CASTLEMAN, Craig. Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York.

(Cambridge, MA and London): The MIT Press, 1982.  First edition.  Hardcover.  24cm by 16cm.  190 pages.  Andrea Nelli’s “Graffiti a New York“, this volume is one of the first ever scholarly publications on the subject of graffiti.   Castleman provides, across nine comprehensive chapters, detailed insights into the history, motivations, experiences and approaches of New York’s graffiti artists.  Not only are the various forms of graffiti analysed, but the hierarchies, rules and behaviour within the scene are also explained.  While the phenomenon often gets romanticized particularly in European research literature by over- and misinterpreting graffiti as a rebellious uprising of economically, socially and politically marginalised youth, Getting Up is considered a universally valid standard work on the subject even today due to its purely descriptive and analytical description of writing.  Illustrated throughout.  A near fine copy in very good dust jacket.  Jacket with some wear, creasing and short closed tears.  Still a nice copy of the scarce hardcover edition.

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