Getting Up

"Getting Up" is the term used by graffiti "artists" to describe their success in making their mark on the New York subway system. Through candid interviews, New Yorker Craig Castleman documents the inside story of the lives and activities of these young graffitists.

ISBN 0262530511   Pages 209 ISBN13 9780262530514 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 295 Imprint MIT Press   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 01 Jan 1984   Width (mm) 147 Library of Congress GT3913.N72   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 751.73097471   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

"A concise descriptive history of subway graffiti ... well organized, informative and well illustrated... No matter if one judges subway graffiti to be art or pollution, one comes away from Getting Up admiring the ingenuity of the young writers." --Robert R. Harris, The New York Times Book Review "Getting Up is urban mass transit's answer to The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe's exploration of the space program... Though Castleman lacks Wolfe's glitzy style, he illuminates a culture through straightforward reporting of its jargon and shared mythology. Rather than making excuses for the chaotic writing that can make New York subways such an eyesore, Castleman merely describes the loosely knit society that creates it. With a descriptive, rather than analytical, approach he lets the graffiti 'writers' speak for themselves. Their language paints a portrait of the subculture that is like their art, extremely vital." --Jeff Reid, In These Times

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