| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color |
| Series |
Architecture |
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Architecture
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| Contents |
Ornament. Ornament -- Consensual ornamentation -- Agonistic ornamentation -- Order. Order -- Inversion, subversion, perversion -- The picaresque, risk, and improvisation |
| Summary |
Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world's most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Decoration and ornament -- Social aspects
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Graffiti -- Social aspects
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Street art -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Graffiti -- Social aspects
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Street art -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472409997 |
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147240999X |
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1472410009 |
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9781472410009 |
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1317085000 |
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9781317085003 |
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1317084993 |
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9781317084990 |
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9781315599113 |
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1315599112 |
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