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Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City book cover

1st Edition

Graffiti and Street Art Reading, Writing and Representing the City

Edited By Konstantinos Avramidis, Myrto Tsilimpounidi Copyright 2017
298 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning, often stylistically crude and aesthetically aggressive, yet always visually arresting, they fill our field of vision with texts and images that no one can escape. As they take place on surfaces and travel through various... Read more

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

INTRODUCTION

Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City

Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi

　

          PART I: Reading Graffiti, Street Art and the City

  1. Graffiti, Street Art and the Dialectics of the City

    2. Jeff Ferrell

  2. Art or Crime or Both at the Same Time? On the Ambiguity of Images in Public Space

    3. Alison Young

  3. Reading Between the [Plot] Lines: Framing Graffiti as Multimodal Practice

    4. Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek

  4. Interviewing Walls: Towards a Method of Reading Hybrid Surface Inscriptions

    5. Sabina Andron

  5. Graffiti, Street Art and the Democratic City

    6. Kurt Iveson

    　

    PART II: Writing Graffiti, Street Art and the City

  6. Street Art is a Period, PERIOD: Or, Classificatory Confusion and Intermural Art

    7. Rafael Schacter

  7. Expressive Measures: An Ecology of the Public Domain

    8. Andrea Mubi Brighenti

  8. Dead Ends and Urban Insignias: Writing Graffiti and Street Art (Hi)Stories along the U.N. Buffer Zone in Nicosia, 2010-2014

    9. Panos Leventis

  9. The December 2008 Uprising’s Stencil Images in Athens: Writing or Inventing Traces of the Future?

    10. Stavros Stavrides

  10. Repetitive Repertoires: How Writing about Cairene Graffiti has Turned into a Serial Monotony

    11. Mona Abaza

    　

    PART III: Representing Graffiti, Street Art and the City

  11. São Paulo’s Pixação and Street Art: Representations of or Responses to Brazilian Modernism?

    12. Alexander Lamazares

  12. Defensible Aesthetics: Creative Resistance to Urban Policies in Ottawa

    13. Deborah Landry

  13. #Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data

    14. Lachlan MacDowall

  14. Representations of Graffiti and the City in the Novel El francotirador paciente: Readings of the Emergent Urban Body in Madrid

    15. Stephen Luis Vilaseca

  15. Long Live the Tag: Representing the Foundations of Graffiti

         Gregory Snyder

Index

Biography

Konstantinos Avramidis is a PhD candidate in Architecture by Design at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Myrto Tsilimpounidi is a Marie Curie Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Bratislava, Slovakia.

'This essay collection yields illuminating insights into graffiti and its close cousin street art. With a globally-diverse range of sites, and contributions from leading academics, this is essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand one of the most distinctive features of 21st century urbanism.' - Iain Borden, University College London, U.K

'With contributions by authors from diverse geographical and disciplinary backgrounds, this book pushes for new ways to understand, study and write about graffiti and street art. In doing so, this volume constitutes an important step towards breaking down disciplinary boundaries and establishing street art studies as a multifaceted academic discipline in its own right.' - Peter Bengtsen, Lund University, Sweden

'Graffiti and Street Art is a competent book, covering important, diverse and emerging issues in the field of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by both well known scholars of the subject and emerging voices in the field. The interdisciplinary nature of the book, along with the fact it theoretically explores unexamined subjects such as graffiti in online environments, and its geographical coverage of underexplored urban contexts (e.g., São Paulo, Athens, Nicosia) is worth noting.' - Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore, U.S.A

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