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Summary: Nothing even approaches
Review: I got the book a couple of days ago and I haven't been able to put it down. The way the graffiti-writer's are profiled and the reasons why they are important is documented so well nothing previously published has come as close. Wow. I have to highly recommend this book to anyone remotely interested in graffiti culture and history. The author discusses the master graffiti-writers in a manner quite encompassing and yet intimate and personal. This is by far the best book concerning graffiti.
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Summary: graff at its best.
Review: I think that this is one of the best books by far ESPO is a writer who knows how to"get over"I am very luckey to live in ny because i get to see his work first hand whether it be a giant bomb on the west side hwy. or in the village advertising his book in all his book is a large step for the graf community.
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Summary: Borish speaks...
Review: I thought that ESPO did a great job in creating this book. He took it from a different point of view, from a fellow artist's point of view. He took us back through history, from old Philly style to NY and then took us to the present with writing bout today's greats. But I thought that he could of done a little history on the old school Chicano/Pachuco styles that began in the West in the 30's y 40's. But still a great job by ESPO and still a great book. Support our struggle and buy his book
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Summary: Where's the Film?
Review: I've just finished my second read. As I thumb through some of the chapters on the specific graffiti writers, I sit and wonder when and/or if a screenplay will ever come out detailing the lives of some of these characters like CORNBREAD, AMAZE, REAS, SUROC and RAZZ. These people seem like a film waiting to happen.
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Summary: Where's the Film?
Review: I've just finished my second read. As I thumb through some of the chapters on the specific graffiti writers, I sit and wonder when and/or if a screenplay will ever come out detailing the lives of some of these characters like CORNBREAD, AMAZE, REAS, SUROC and RAZZ. These people seem like a film waiting to happen.
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Summary: The Art Of Getting Over is all crime, no punishment.
Review: Love it or hate it, graffiti is America's favorite urban visual expression. Meet the sprayers who are loved by players and hated by mayors everywhere. Over 250 photos and enough text to keep fans happy and haters vexed.
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Summary: Three Words
Review: RAZZ, KADISM and SUROC! You can read about New York writers in any book. Reading about these Philadelphia standouts is worth the price alone.
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Summary: Finally, this subject matter is competently handled!
Review: St. Martin's Press delivers once again. With the same level of expertise afforded to punk and other marginal cultures, the publisher has set out to unleash an atomic bomb blast on the graffiti universe. There has always been three planets which orbit the literary world of Modern Graffiti. In chronological order: The Faith of Graffiti, text by Norman Mailer; Getting Up by Craig Castleman; and Subway Art by Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper. Add to this list Powers' The Art of Getting Over. Whereas other offerings have been outsiders looking in (and in most cases piss poor proceedings follow with the aforementioned exceptions), TAGO is as real as it gets. Give Powers' credit for deleting the gratuitous 'glossary' which creeps its way in the amateur ranks and the insertion of style, both graphically and literary, which sets standards not soon to be superceded.
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Summary: Self-serving and stupid
Review: Stephen Powers wastes much of this book with inside jokes between himself and the taggers that he choses to write about. It is poorly written and fails to explain why the taggers do what they do. The pictures are impressive and he does add a touch of historical perspective to graffiti in the USA, but ultimately it is a self-serving and worthless book. Your money would be better spent buying a graffiti magazine.
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Summary: A word is worth a thousand pictures...
Review: Stephen Powers, aka ESPO, gives to the world of publishing, The Art of Getting Over. No, it is not a self-help book, but a journal documenting the escapades and works of Graf kings past and present. Bound in black ( thus resembling a graf head's "peice book" ) it contains hundreds of full-colour and black white pictures, showing the different styles and forms of graffiti and the evolution thereof. Also, within the pages contains excerpts of the lives of the various artists, from the interesting ( The REVS ) to the near tragic ( GKAE from L.A. in particular ). Though at times one could get lost from the numerous crew & name dropping, it is noteworthy enough to warrant a place in Hip-Hop history. The highlight of this book is, of course, the amazing art displayed, featuring Mr. Powers' impressions of the various faces of graf: wether it be block letters, wild styles, throw-ups, to the basic tag. It would have been of particular interest to have put in words the aesthetics of graf in greater detail by someone who is active in the art ( especially to the laymen ), but we only have tidbits here and there scattered through out that leaves the reader wanting some more. An excellent addition to any Hip-Hop library, it might just make a graf head out of you.
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