Routledge handbook of graffiti and street art / edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross
- Published:
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Ross, Jeffrey Ian
- Series:
- Contents:
- Part I: History, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art. Ancient graffiti / J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor -- Trains, railroad workers and illegal riders: the subcultural world of hobo graffiti / John F. Lennon -- The history of freight train graffiti in North America / Robert Donald Weide -- Prison inmate graffiti / Jacqueline Z. Wilson -- Ways of being seen: gender and writing on the wall / Jessica N. Pabón -- Research and theory on latrinalia / Adam Trahan -- Yarn bombing--the softer side of street art / Minna Haveri -- Straight from the underground: New York City's leading graffiti wring culture / Ronald Kramer -- American Indian graffiti / Favian Martín -- Part II: Theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art. Graffiti and street art as ornament / Rafael Schacter -- Graffiti, street art and the divergent synthesis of place valorisation in contemporary urbanism / Andrea Mubi Brighenti -- Graffiti art and the city: from piece-making to place-making / Graeme Evans -- Something for the boys? Exploring the changing gender dynamics of the graffiti subculture / Nancy Macdonald -- The psychology behind graffiti involvement / Myra F. Taylor, Julie Ann Pooley, and Georgia Carragher -- Graffiti and the subculture career / Gregory J. Snyder -- Part III: Regional/municipal variations/difference of graffiti and street art. From the city walls to 'clean trains': graffiti in New York City, 1969-1990 / Joe A. Austin -- "Boost or blight?" Graffiti writing and street art in the "new" New Orleans / Doreen Piano -- Pop culture and politics: graffiti and street art in Montréal / Anna Wacławek -- The battle for public space along the Mapocho river, Santiago de Chile, 1964-2014 / Rodney Palmer -- London calling / contemporary graffiti and street art in the UK's capital / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Graffiti and street art in Paris / David Fieni -- From Marx to Merkel: political muralism and street art in Lisbon -- The field of graffiti and street art in post-January 2011 Egypt / Mona Abaza -- Wall talk: Palestinian graffiti / Julie Peteet -- Graffiti/street art in Tokyo and surrounding districts / Hidetsugu Yamakoshi and Yasumasa Sekine -- Claiming spaces for urban art images in Beijing and Shanghai / Minna Valjakka -- Contesting transcultural trends: emerging self-identities and urban art images in Hong Kong / Minna Valjakka -- Part IV: Effects of graffiti and street art. How major urban centers in the United States respond to graffiti/street art / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- New York City's moral panic over graffiti: normalizing neoliberal penality and paving the way for growth machines / Ronald Kramer -- Stealing from the public: the value of street art taken from the street / Peter Bengsten -- How American movies depict graffiti, in defense of graffiti / Stefano Bloch -- Does copyright law protect graffiti and street art / Danwill D. Schwender -- Graffiti, street art, and the evolution of the art market / Maia Morgan Wells.
- Summary:
- "The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: history, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art; theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art; regional/municipal variations/differences of graffiti and street art; and, effects of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked."--Publisher's description.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781138792937 (hardback)
1138792934 (hardback) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2015.
- Endowment Note:
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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