Publisher's Synopsis
Wall Writers explores graffiti's eruption into mainstream society in the period of social turmoil in the late 1960s and early '70s, and takes a closer look not only at early graffiti's place on the wall but its place in the culture of the time. More comprehensive than any other book on the subject, this title explores not only early graffiti writing itself but the writers creating it, the culture that drove them to write and the new technology of spray paint that made it possible.