- Paperback: 209 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press; New edition edition (April 26 1984)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262530511
- ISBN-13: 978-0262530514
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 16.3 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #429,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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
Book Description
"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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A deep look into the world of graffiti.,
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This review is from: Getting Up: Subway Graffitti in New York (Paperback)
Getting Up explains subway graffiti in New York City mostly in the seventies. Unlike other books on the same subject, Getting Up does not come out only in graffiti's favour. By including quotes from transit police, MTA workers and even politicians, a wide range of perspective is provided. We get to learn about Mayor Koch's neverending battle against the writers, how the plague just would not die. Also worth mentioning is an interview with Lee of The Fabulous Five, going into details about the night he and his partners went out to paint a wholetrain. This is a very good book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Man ya got it all wrong "GOD" Dis here is da book!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Getting Up: Subway Graffitti in New York (Paperback)
Hey ya if ya want to through up some fuse ya need to read dis book and catch up on some real life wisdom.Because the only one that you is heartin out ther is you, if ya just writin on walls and not knowing what ya doing ya ging to screw up agood wall ,so get the write paint get da right damn wall and most important get da right damn BOOK!!!!@#$
5.0 out of 5 stars
FULL OF GRAFFITI,
By noppah@hotmail.com (Istanbul) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting Up: Subway Graffitti in New York (Paperback)
Getting up is one of the best book i've ever seen. It contains more about graf. so Craig Castleman had a good job for readers!
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