Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing The City
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing The City
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing The City
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Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
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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 channels, they provide viewers an entry point
to the subtext of the cities we live in, while questioning how we read,
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write and represent them. This book is structured around these three
distinct, albeit by definition interwoven, key frames. The contributors
of this volume critically investigate underexplored urban contexts in
which graffiti and street art appear, shed light on previously unexamined
aspects of these practices, and introduce innovative methodologies
regarding the treatment of these images. Throughout, the focus is on
the relationship of graffiti and street art with urban space, and the
various manifestations of these idiosyncratic meetings. In this book,
the emphasis is shifted from what the physical texts say to what these
practices and their produced images do in different contexts.
Reading, Writing and Representing the City
All chapters are original and come from experts in various fields, such
as Architecture, Urban Studies, Sociology, Criminology, Anthropology
and Visual Cultures, as well as scholars that transcend traditional
disciplinary frameworks. This exciting new collection is essential reading
Cover image: Blaqk Crew, 2013. Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece.
Photograph: Blaqk Crew. Reproduced with permission of the artists.
ISBN 978-1-4724-7333-2
Edited by
Konstantinos Avramidis
9 781472 473332
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