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Author Pan, Lu, author

Title Aestheticizing public space : street visual politics in East Asian cities / Lu Pan
Published Bristol : Intellect, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Carnival on the Street-Visual Order and its (Pseudo- )Reversion; Chapter 1: A Twisted Carnival: State-Sponsored Graffiti in China; Chapter 2: Writing at the End of History: Reflections on Two Cases of Graffiti in Hong Kong; Part II: Aura on (and beyond) the Street-Body, Community, and Media; Chapter 3: Trans-spatial Images: Traveling Graffiti (Art) and the Possibility of Resistance in Chinese Urban Space; Chapter 4: Eloquence of Silent Speech: JR in East Asia
Part III: Dissensus on the Street-Aesthetics, Politics, and Public SpaceChapter 5: The Spectacle of Democracy: Violence, Language, and Dissensus in the Case of Anti-war Graffiti in Tokyo; Chapter 6: The Nation's Shame? Seoul's Rat Graffiti Incident at the 2010 G-20 Summit; Part IV: Creativity on the Street-Visual Narratives of East Asian Creative Cities 143; Chapter 7: Art, Urban Space, and Governance: Street Mural and "Legal Wall" in Japan; Chapter 8: Marginality as Centrality: The "Seoul Urban Art Project" and AGIT in Busan
Special Chapter: Voices from the Street-Interviews with Street Visual Producers in East Asia 1Interview with VERY; Interview with Garoo; Interview with Zyko (Beijing); Interview with Ken Lee @Dirty Panda; Interview with Friendly @Invasian; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary A photo collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through theirgraffiti, street art and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respectiveregions, Lu Pan explores how graffiti in East Asia reflects the relationship between aesthetics and politics. The book situates itself in a contested dynamic relationshipamong human bodies, visual modernity, social or moral norms, styles, and historical experiences and narratives. On a broader level, this book aims to shed light on how aesthetics and politics are mobilized in different contested spaces and media forms, in which the producer and the spectator change and exchange their identities
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Subject Graffiti -- East Asia
Public art -- East Asia
Art -- Political aspects -- East Asia
Street art -- East Asia
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
ART / Criticism & Theory
Art -- Political aspects
Graffiti
Public art
Street art
East Asia
Form Electronic book
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