num_pages: 256
description: BLADE has already told his life story through graffiti. Now more than forty years into his career and armed with an incredible memory BLADE sits down with Chris Pape to reflect on growing up in the Bronx in the turbulent 1970s and recounts the highs and lows of his storied career holding nothing back. BLADE is considered The King of Graffiti because by 1980 after painting 5000 wildly creative trains he stopped counting. This book parallels the New York graffiti movement almost from its inception moving through its glory years in the mid-1970s when BLADE earned his title and ending in the global art scene where he remains a major presence. BLADE helped New York graffiti become internationally famous by making it look fun and for reasons of quantity quality and perhaps above all for sheer spirit BLADE may very well be the most popular graffiti artist with his peers.
language: English
title: Blade: King of Graffiti
publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.