Grafficity. Visual Practices and Contestations in Urban Space - Couverture souple

Eva Youkhana; Larissa Förster

 
9783770559091: Grafficity. Visual Practices and Contestations in Urban Space
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3770559096 ISBN 13 : 9783770559091
Editeur : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

Graffiti has its roots in urban youth and protest cultures. However, in the past decades it has become an established visual art form. This volume investigates how graffiti oscillates between genuine subversiveness and a more recent commercialization and appropriation by the (art) market. At the same time it looks at how graffiti and street art are increasingly used as an instrument for collective re-appropriation of the urban space and so for the articulation of different forms of belonging, ethnicity, and citizenship. The focus is set on the role of graffiti in metropolitan contexts in the Spanish-speaking world but also includes glimpses of historical inscriptions in ancient Rome and Mesoamerica, as well as the graffiti movement in New York in the 1970s and in Egypt during the Arab Spring.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Graffiti has its roots in urban youth and protest cultures. However, in the past decades it has become an established visual art form. This volume investigates how graffiti oscillates between genuine subversiveness and a more recent commercialization and appropriation by the (art) market. At the same time it looks at how graffiti and street art are increasingly used as an instrument for collective re-appropriation of the urban space and so for the articulation of different forms of belonging, ethnicity, and citizenship. The focus is set on the role of graffiti in metropolitan contexts in the Spanish-speaking world but also includes glimpses of historical inscriptions in ancient Rome and Mesoamerica, as well as the graffiti movement in New York in the 1970s and in Egypt during the Arab Spring.

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Éditeur
Wilhelm Fink Verlag
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3770559096
ISBN 13 
9783770559091
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
316
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Personne responsable
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