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Author Avramidis, Konstantinos

Title Graffiti and Street Art : Reading, Writing and Representing the City
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Graffiti and street art: reading, writing and representing the city; Part I Reading graffiti, street art and the city; 1 Graffiti, street art and the dialectics of the city; 2 Art or crime or both at the same time? On the ambiguity of images in public space; 3 Reading between the [plot] lines: framing graffiti as multimodal practice; 4 Interviewing walls: towards a method of reading hybrid surface inscriptions; 5 Graffiti, street art and the democratic city
Part II Writing graffiti, street art and the city6 Street art is a period, PERIOD: or, classificatory confusion and intermural art; 7 Expressive measures: an ecology of the public domain; 8 Dead ends and urban insignias: writing graffiti and street art (hi)stories along the UN buffer zone in Nicosia, 2010-2014; 9 The December 2008 uprising's stencil images in Athens: writing or inventing traces of the future?; 10 Repetitive repertoires: how writing about Cairene graffiti has turned into a serial monotony; 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 Defensible aesthetics: creative resistance to urban policies in Ottawa; 13 #Instafame: aesthetics, audiences, data; 14 Representations of graffiti and the city in the novel El francotirador paciente: readings of the emergent urban body in Madrid; 15 Long live the tag: representing the foundations of graffiti; Index
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Subject Graffiti -- Social aspects
Graffiti -- Political aspects
Street art -- Social aspects
Street art -- Political aspects
Sociology, Urban.
urban sociology.
Graffiti -- Political aspects
Graffiti -- Social aspects
Sociology, Urban
Street art -- Political aspects
Street art -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Tsilimpounidi, Myrto
ISBN 9781317125044
1317125045