R.I.P.
Subtitle: Memorial Wall Art
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780500277768
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; Graphic Arts - General; Art & Art Instruction; Street art; New York (State); Art; USA; Mural painting and decoration,; Death & Dying; Popular Culture - General; 20th century; Graffiti; Mural painting and decoration, American; New York
Description: Once, the spraycan kings of New York's subways astounded the world with their exuberant graffiti images. Now a new generation of artists has hit the streets and is decorating neighbourhood walls with memorials to the tragic and untimely deaths of friends and loved ones. *R.I.P.* —assembling the very best of a vibrant street art wave— contains colour photographs of memorials from Harlem and the Lower East Side, the South Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as the moving stories behind them. The victims of shootings, accidents, arguments, police killings and drug-related turf wars may be gone, but thanks to these paintings they are not forgotten: for a violent and indifferent city has also spawned a rich urban art form.
Notes: Includes colour illustrations.