Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415538695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 172 str.

Alison Young

Opis

This text investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Based upon 15 years of research, it examines the ways in which street art has become as integral part of cities' cultural identities.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Situational Artwork; encounter watching JR,  Chapter 2 The Cities in the City; encounter criminal damage?,  Chapter 3 Cityscapes; encounter losing the image,  Chapter 4 Criminalising the Image; encounter things on walls,  Chapter 5 Street Art and Spatial Politics; encounter Banksy under glass,  Chapter 6 Transformations: Urban Imagination in the Public City,  Bibliography,  Index

O autorze

Alison Young is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.