Ornament and Order - Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon

Informationen zum Autor Rafael Schacter is a Researcher in the Department of Anthropology, University College London and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017 also at University College London. Klappentext Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world's most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are seen to reface rather than deface the city, operating within a modality of contemporary civic ritual. Zusammenfassung Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world's most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing 'graffiti' within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I: Ornament; 1: Ornament; 2: Consensual Ornamentation; 3: Agonistic Ornamentation; II: Order; 4: Order; 5: Inversion, Subversion, Perversion; 6: Play, Risk and the Picaresque; Conclusion; Postscript

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Schacter, Schacter Rafael
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2014
• EAN: 9781472409980
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-0998-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Theory of art, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Human Geography, Urban communities, Theory of architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects