Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond

Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond is the first monograph of Puerto Rican born artist Lee Quiñones presenting his monumental work and following his evolution over five decades.

'If you wanted one artist to speak for a whole genre, Lee is your man. If you want a book that treats graffiti as fine art and illustrates it sumptuously, this is it.' - The Artist

'An inspired outlaw with a meticulous design process and precision painting skills, his voice responded to the social and civil unrest of the era and found expression in painting graffiti, an ancient art form that he and many of his peers had to defend in the larger art world.' - Juxtapoz

'What we have here are essentially moments in time, a stop-frame history of fifty years of graffiti, if you like. If you want just one book on the subject, this would be it.' - Art Book Review

When 14-year-old Lee embarked on his first spray paint mural in 1974, he carried marker drawings into the New York City subway train yards that served as studies to his 52-ft long rolling murals. Drawings, artifacts, and subway photography illustrate how Lee's emergence served as a catalyst for what is now acknowledged as the street art movement. Before Lee, graffiti art was accessed by a small audience of young people who coveted style and scale. Images of Lee's trains illustrate how he changed the face of the movement, infusing kinetic elements of futurism in over 120 subway car murals across the transit system. Lee invented the concept of the freestanding urban mural in his iconic 1978 Howard the Duck handball wall. He introduced spray-paint based work internationally when he opened his first formal exhibition in Rome, Italy in 1979, alongside Fab 5 Freddy. He influenced peers Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, among others, who are shown viewing Lee's work. Lee and Basquiat were the youngest artists to exhibit at Documenta 7. Lee starred as the semi-autobiographical Zoro in Wild Style, the first feature film about hip hop. Images show the social commentary and poetry used in his early expressionistic work. Subsequent paintings show how Lee's practice has shaped a generation of contemporary artists as he further developed his technique. The imagery captures the mood and urgency of 1980s New York and moves from the streets to the intimacy and maturity of Lee's contemporary studio environment.

• Hardcover
• 192 Pages

Analog Delinquents, known for their fanzines focusing on analog photos, have compiled this book about freight train journeys around the world.

Just like the fanzines, you get a great mix of images and interviews.

100 pages of travelogues from freight trains around the world.

Photos and interviews/travel narratives by Reallifeism, A_Kiwara, DIE8, and Mouse.

Format: 100 Pages

Soft cover 170 x 240

Language: English

528 pages of radical energy: ORGAZMA brings together the complete oeuvre of French writer and artist LOKISS for the first time – from his early wild-style pieces of the 1980s to digital works, sculptures, and installations. As a leading figure in the European graffiti avant-garde, LOKISS quickly transcended the boundaries of classic style writing and developed a powerful, independent visual language that oscillates between letter explosions and abstract composition.

The book documents four decades of artistic development—wild, political, raw, and futuristic. Featuring sketches, murals, video stills, objects, and rare archival material, each work is dated, revealing stylistic breaks and continuities. A candid foreword provides deep insights into LOKISS's drive and attitude.

Exclusively as a signed limited edition – hand-signed by LOKISS himself.
In May 2025, LOKISS also designed the legendary MOLOTOW TRAIN – a tribute to his roots and his influence on European graffiti culture.

Author: Sean Reynolds

From the gold-rush years to the Swinging Sixties, from Robur Tea to Tarax soft drinks, this city can never settle. In a process of continual renewal, old buildings are incorporated into new, both uncovering and obscuring snippets of history.

Ghost signs provide hints to our common heritage, ready to be picked up by the keen eye and quick shutter.Sean Reynolds, a transplanted American, first became fascinated bythese old signs while walking in Yarraville and Footscray with his young daughter during their daily lockdown outings. He loved the hand-painted letters, the intricate glasswork, and the old factories marketing brands he’d never heard of before: big names like Uncle Tobys and Four’n Twenty, but also smaller ones, no less important, like ‘Miss Watson’s Motor Garage’ or the ‘St Kilda Coffee Palace’.

Join him in a tour of fascinating photos - sometimes nostalgic, sometimes gaudy -and the stories behind them - variously delightful, heroic, and tragic. Find the cities behind the city you thought you knew, one ghost sign at a time.

• ISBN 9781761380815
• Scribe Publications
• Hardcover, 176 pages, full colour, 26.3 x 29.7 cm

Author: Rafael Schacter

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be.

Monumental Graffiti unpacks today’s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in—and whose are excluded from—public space. Written from 20 years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordan Matta-Clark, William Pope. L, Cy Twombly, and many more.

Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.

ISBN: 9780262049221
Imprint: MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400

Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers" of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, '80s and '90s transit system "graveyards," including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented "underdogs." The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the writers talking about their art and recalling their wild antics. This is an informative, nostalgic look at New York subway graffiti. AUTHOR: Tod Lange, from Queens, New York, was introduced to graffiti in 1987, when he was 13 years old. He has become an artist and photographer, currently living in Pennsylvania.