pop culture 2016 new releases: 2 featured titles: 21 backlist titles: 24 R 2 2016–2017 NEW RELEASES Pop Culture DAZEWORLD: Th e Artwork of Chris Daze Ellis Chris Daze Ellis, Foreword by Sacha Jenkins • A New York graffi ti writer’s illustrated journey from painting trains to exhibiting in international galleries • 250 unpublished photos of ‘70s and ‘80s graffi ti and modern international murals and studio paintings • “His oeuvre evinces rigorous experimentation underwritten by an enduring interest in urbanity.” Th is is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis’s successful transition from the subways to international studios and galleries. Follow his 30+ year career from his teen years as a graffi ti writer to his current life as a professional painter, mentor, and family man. Th is book, with more than 250 photographs, is a journey that tracks seminal moments in Daze’s life that shaped his art. View his aesthetic evolution, from “Graffi ti High” (New York’s High School of Art and Design) and an “unsanctioned” street art phase to exhibitions with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Train photos from the 1970s and ’80s, a broad representation of Daze’s studio and mural works, and personal photos guide the reader through an artistic portfolio spanning fi ve decades. Contributions by graffi ti writer Jay “J.SON” Edlin and essayist Claire Schwartz, and a foreword by graffi ti historian and chronicler Sacha Jenkins complete this volume. chris daze ellis began painting the gritt y New York Subways in the mid-1970s while att ending the High School of Art & Design. His work can currently be found in galleries and museums worldwide. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 269 color images • 176 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5105-1 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE NOW UPTOWN & DOWNTOWN: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps Alan Bortman • Subway map graffi ti art by the most infl uential artists of the movement in its prime • 16 artists’ work, including images from more than 100 maps • A medium that started small in the ’80s and is now growing worldwide New York graffi ti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the ’70s and ’80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using transit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23“ × 32“ MTA maps with their personal tags and graphics—echoing the heyday of New York train graffi ti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters’ artistic evolution and style. Like a dynamic “piece book,” or sketchbook, this collection is an exclusive sampling of the painters’ signature strokes and tags in portable form. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as a springboard from the fl eeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of the international art gallery circuit. alan bortman lives in the greater Boston area. He is the curator of DirtyPilot.com, an urban art and graffi ti art store featuring well-known and underground artists. Size: 9" x 12" • 105 color photos • 128 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5097-9 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE NOW Pop Culture 2016–2017 NEW RELEASES 3 2 C R E AT E : Art Collaborations in New York City Yoav Litvin • Nine pairs of New York’s fi nest graffi ti and street artists and their collaborative projects • Detailed images are complemented by in-depth interviews on artists’ backgrounds, techniques, and processes • Discover the secrets behind successful cooperative artistic endeavors Th is beautifully designed book showcases the work of nine pairs of New York City’s fi nest graffi ti and street artists, delving deep into their backgrounds, techniques, and collaborative processes. Each duo consists of artists with unique styles who come together to create a larger-than-life work of street art in a neighborhood in New York, the birthplace of modern graffi ti. Witness the immense creative potential of collaborations that have produced stunning examples of classic graffi ti, collage work, screen printing, and murals. Each chapter provides access to a mysterious underworld, leading readers to secretive meetings of creative minds out of which ephemeral, yet nonetheless remarkable, works are born and later transferred onto walls, rooft ops, trucks, and subway platforms. Th e combination of revealing interviews and colorful action photography produces a narrative arc of relationships—formed between individuals from diverse backgrounds and creative upbringings—that follows the artistic process from creative spark to collaborative masterpiece. Yoav Litvin is a New York City–based scientist, photographer, and writer. In his work, he is interested in promoting creative and progressive causes with a focus on documenting urban culture, arts, and peoples. Size: 10" x 8" • 261 color images • 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5265-2 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER B A LT I M O R E G RA FFITI: Th e Defi nitive Charm City Style Collection Michael Sachse • An exhaustive photographic documentation of Baltimore’s graffi ti scene from 2011 to 2014 • 126 artist pages, 4,000 images, and historical and stylistic information about Baltimore graffi ti style • Love it or hate it, this is a side of Baltimore you may never see with your own eyes Th is photo-documentary of Baltimore graffi ti writers’ tags, or specially styled signatures, features the widest range of such artwork ever compiled. In one of the most staggering local graffi ti compendiums available, photos taken between 2011 and 2014 highlight the myriad variations of tags and throw-ups the most active Baltimore graffi ti artists have produced. Discover what makes Maryland’s largest city stand apart from other graffi ti communities by having a close look at 126 artist collages and over 4,000 images total. Four years’ worth of blood, sweat, and tears went into amassing a complete spectrum of Charm City’s graffi ti writers in active hotspots, reaching beyond the city’s borders into Baltimore County. Experience this urban landscape as many graffi ti artists have through collages crammed with as many as 40 or more tag examples, as well as some rare views of the decaying underbelly of the Baltimore area. Michael Sachse grew up in the Baltimore area and remains a resident to this day. Aft er graduating from MICA he began documenting graffi ti in order to preserve a part of its colorful history. Size: 12" x 12" • 4,000+ color images • 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5154-9 • hard cover • $45.00 AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER 4 2016–2017 NEW RELEASES Pop Culture KOLORSTORM: The Art of Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro Louie Gasparro •A legendary NYC street artist/punk musician’s illustrated monograph spanning his complete artistic development • A photographic timeline featuring more than 400 paintings, tags, album covers, trains, and model trains • Graffiti, hardcore, and an extraordinary atmospheric disturbance known as KR.ONE come together to create a KOLORSTORM NYC graffiti art, heavy metal, comic books, and fantasy art intersect here in Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro’s visual autobiography. This legendary Queens artist-drummer weaves these powerful influences into a medium he calls “Graffantasy,” creating tags, wall pieces, paintings and illustrations, model trains, jackets, and more. Gaze at this modern Renaissance man’s work from 1977 to the present, and trace his evolution from his adolescent days watching bombed subway cars whirring by in a KOLORSTORM, to the underground period tagging trains and evading cops, to his legal works and whole–school buses. Starting with a scrapbook-like photo collection from Louie’s youth and his other career as drummer of several heavy metal bands, the book moves on with elaborate sketches from the artist’s blackbooks, and colorful concert posters and album covers. Through a stunning array of styles and techniques, witness KR.ONE’s transformation from restless punk to major decorative artist and abstract painter. Part of the rolling subway art of NYC graffiti since 1977,Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro is a graphic designer, painter, producer, poet, and musician living and working in New York City. Size: 9" x 12"• 428 color images• 160 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5185-3 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER PINBALL WIZARDS & BLACKLIGHT DESTROYERS: The Art of Dirty Donny Gillies Dirty Donny Gillies • Five years of pop culture rock-and-roll artwork from legendary artist Dirty Donny • Hand-painted images for pinball machines, hot rods, rock bands, skateboards, and more • Showcases commissions for bands and businesses such as Metallica, Mastodon, Vans, and Snap-on tools Pop-art connoisseurs are treated to a mind-bending journey through the blistering paintings of San Francisco artist Dirty Donny Gillies. Take a visual tour of his vibrant, hand-drawn and screen-printed poster art series “Blacklight Rebellion” and hand-painted solo art show “Fantastic Voyage.” This ultimate collection of cool also includes his iconic work for Stern Pinball, metal giant Metallica, Vans Skate, Snap-On tools, and Cruz Pedregon’s Top Fuel Funny Car, not to mention work on his own air-brushed 1970s boogie van. The art attack continues with eye-melting imagery from skateboard decks, decal sets, toys, guitars, drums, and his series of model kits for AMT. Pop-art collectors will appreciate full-page photos from the likes of legendary street photographer Ricky Powell, as well as the commentary by Ed Robertson of the Bare Naked Ladies, Mastadon’s Bran Dailor, Brendon Small of animated series Metalocalypse, Howie Pyro, (Danzig, D-Generation) and fellow weirdo artist Skinner.