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Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination
By : Alison Young
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Book Synopsis :
What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime?Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction and have become collectable aesthetic commodities. Such paradoxical responses show that street art challenges conventional understandings of culture, law, crime and art.Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination engages with those paradoxes in order to understand how street art reveals new modes of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories of street art and the motivations of street artists, and the experiences both of making street art and looking at street art in public space. It considers the ways in
Book Detail :
Author : Alison Young
Pages : 200 pages
Publisher : Routledge
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ISBN-10 : 0415729254
ISBN-13 : 9780415729253
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