Tart Art by Chelsea-Louise Berlin

signed

hardback

Created from part of her 'Berlin collection' 'Tart Art' contains some of the earliest and rarest hand drawn Tart cards from telephone boxes across London from the late 1980’s, which she collected and has been building on ever since as part of her ever growing archive.

Each and every card has been hand plucked out of the phone box , sometimes easily and without thought, at other times with a little bit of a confrontation with those putting them in!

The book contains a section of her thoughts on the graphic content of the cards, how the images came about, how they changed or where borrowed or plagiarised from existing imagery, where in London they came from and the social situation and desires they mirror, as well as more than 300 full colour representations of the original cards.

With 192 pages this book will have you wishing you were back in the mid-eighties and able to get your own Tart Cards from London phone boxes.