This monograph on Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based painter Kamrooz Aram (b.1978) presents the Palimpsest series, which was in part inspired by graffiti on the streets of New York, and its constant painting-over by the authorities, only for it to become covered again in graffiti. The ongoing cycle of painting, covering-up and repainting in the urban environment connects with Aram s long-standing fascination with modernism and the legacies of Abstract painting.Aram explains: The word palimpsest derives from the Greek term for a manuscript that has been scraped down so it can be reused. However,...