The Far Side ® Gallery 4

Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs. Ephemeral, Secretive, Illegal. Rebellious, Provocative, Competitive. This Is America's Newest Folk Art. Seeded In The Gang Rivalry Of New York's Adolescents, It Has Developed From Crude Graffiti Writing To A Highly Sophisticated Calligraphy That Flowers In A Constantly Changing, Bold And Brilliant Travelling Show On The City's Subway System. History -- Train Lines -- Vocabulary -- Techniques -- Writers And Crews -- Kings -- Style -- Characters -- Dedications -- Opposition. Martha Cooper And Henry Chalfant. New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement. Traces the history of New York graffiti, shows a variety of painted subway cars, and desribes the graffiti writers and how they work