Graffiti and street art /
By: Wacławek, Anna.
Series: Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011Description: 208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500204078 (pbk.); 9780500204078:; 0500204071 (pbk.).Subject(s): Graffiti | Street artDDC classification: 751.73Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 751.73 WAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0091108 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Graffiti to Post-Graffiti. Signature graffiti writing ; The tag ; Throwies ; Pieces ; Tools of the trade ; Kings, toys and crews ; Urban painting ; Stencils ; Logos ; Characters -- Graffiti's Genealogy. Writing style ; Graffiti in motion ; A necessary crime ; 'Hip-hop graffiti' ; Forays into galleries ; Basquiat and Haring -- Street Art and the City. Street art as public art ; Contesting 'public' space ; Defining a community ; The city as context ; Here today, gone tomorrow ; Performing street art ; Identity politics -- Post-Graffiti, Site and Space. The liminal ; But what does it do? ; Same work, multiple sites ; Location, location, location ; The material support and the work itself -- Urban Visual Culture. Visual culture and art history ; Street art off the streets ; In the gallery ; On the internet ; Reclaiming the streets: remixing, culture jamming and subvertising -- Urban painting today -- Artists' websites.
This text explains the terms and language of graffiti and street art from tags and throwies to culture jamming and subvertising as well as their multiple influences and sub-genres.