Editor: Tamsin Dillon
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
London Underground has long been a pioneer in the field of art and design, from the early twentieth century when it commissioned posters by artists such as Man Ray, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Graham Sutherland and the commission of Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road station in the 1980s, to the art programme, Platform for Art, rebranded as Art on the Underground in 2007.
This book looks at Platform for Art's development and is an opportunity to see and read more about a selected range of the projects it has produced over the past few years. Alex Coles essay examines specific projects including those by Chiho Aoshima, Beatriz Milhazes and Mark Titchner at Gloucester Road station, Lothar Götz at Piccadilly Circus station, the images commissioned for the Tube map covers and some of the artworks produced for the Thin Cities.