Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City by Schacter, Rafael
Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City by Schacter, Rafael

Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of...
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Author: Rafael Schacter
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Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City by Schacter, Rafael

Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

CHF 53.83
Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City by Schacter, Rafael

Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

CHF 53.83
Author: Rafael Schacter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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, curator and 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 twenty 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, Gordon 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.

Author: Rafael Schacter
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780262049221

About the Author
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.
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