Aerosol Kingdom

Subway Painters of New York City

Ivor L Miller, Robert Farris Thompson

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University Press of Mississippi
30 September 2012

Graffiti & street art

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 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.

As the artists wielded their spray cans, they expressed their acute social consciousness. Aerosol Kingdom 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.

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 now in Aerosol Kingdom.

By: Ivor L Miller
Foreword by: Robert Farris Thompson
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 278mm, Width: 215mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 822g
ISBN: 9781617036774
ISBN 10: 1617036773
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 30 September 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ivor L. Miller has published widely in African Studies Review, Third Text: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture, Callaloo, Race & Class, and LUCERO: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. He is also the author of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba.

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Aerosol Kingdom

Subway Painters of New York City

Ivor L Miller, Robert Farris Thompson

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