1st Edition
Ornament and Order Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon
By Rafael Schacter
Copyright 2014
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and... Read more
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
Biography
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.
