One-track mind
Subtitle: drawing the New York subway
By: drawings by Philip Ashforth Coppola ; foreword by Jonathan Lethem ; edited by Ezra Bookstein & Jeremy Workman
Contributors: Lethem, Jonathan, writer of foreword; Workman, Jeremy, 1971- editor; Bookstein, Ezra, editor; Coppola, Philip Ashforth
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781616896744
Subjects: Decoration; Subways
Other titles: 1-track mind :; Drawing the New York subway
Description: "For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, and tile patterns that millions of riders pass by every day. Coppola's drawings are what Hyperallergic calls "the most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of the New York City subway system." Along with Coppola's intricate ink drawings are anecdotes he assembled through painstaking research involving hundreds of hours poring through microfilms to discover the names behind the artisanship of what is rightly called New York's largest public art work—its legendary subway system."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Contains material adapted from Silver Connections by Philip Ashforth Coppola.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the New York City subway; title: Maps; title: Station drawings; title: Sketchbook.