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One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway

By Bookstein , Ezra;Lethem , Jonathan;Workman , Jeremy;Philip Ashforth Coppola

Book information

Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781616896744, 9781616897314, 1616897317
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
84 MB (88321942 bytes)
Pages
160 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ART--Techniques--Drawing;Subways;Subways--Decorati

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.

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