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Monumental Graffiti : Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City - Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

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What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression. What is graffiti--vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.

List of contents

Introduction: Monumental Graffiti
Part I: Form
1. Site
2. Style
3. Time
Part II: Message
4. Speech
5. Action
6. Participation
Part III: Trace
7. Publicity and Privacy
8. Visibility and Invisibility
9. Spectacularity and Temporality
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Rafael Schacter is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London and head of the Material, Visual, and Digital Culture subsection. He is the author of Street to Studio, Ornament and Order, and the award-winning World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Schacter has curated exhibitions at London’s Tate Modern, Somerset House, and many other galleries.

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What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

Product details

Authors Rafael Schacter, Schacter Rafael
Publisher The MIT Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.10.2024
 
EAN 9780262049221
ISBN 978-0-262-04922-1
No. of pages 400
Weight 901 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts

The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Graffiti & Street Art, urban arts

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