Monumental Graffiti

Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

Rafael Schacter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2024
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04922-1 (ISBN)

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What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression. What is graffiti vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be. Monumental Graffiti unpacks today s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in and whose are excluded from public space. Written from 20 years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis Alys, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordan Matta-Clark, William Pope. L, Cy Twombly, and many more. Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.

Rafael Schacter is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London and head of the Material, Visual, and Digital Culture subsection. He is the author of Street to Studio, Ornament and Order, and the award-winning World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Schacter has curated exhibitions at London s Tate Modern, Somerset House, and many other galleries.

Introduction: Monumental Graffiti
Part I: Form
1. Site
2. Style
3. Time
Part II: Message
4. Speech
5. Action
6. Participation
Part III: Trace
7. Publicity and Privacy
8. Visibility and Invisibility
9. Spectacularity and Temporality
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	86 COLOR ILLUS., 211 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-262-04922-8 / 0262049228
ISBN-13	978-0-262-04922-1 / 9780262049221
Zustand	Neuware