Graphic identities nine graffiti fields

ISBN-13: 9786203943795 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str.

Philippe Hameau

Opis

Individuals who have sometimes never written or drawn, who have probably never even imagined doing so before going to such and such a place, come to express themselves on unusual supports, rock, wall or tree, according to a language that is both personal to them and very dependent on the group to which they belong during the time of their passage through the site. Who are they and what are the elements that justify their actions? The reasons most frequently invoked are idleness which would push them to "occupy their hands" or a will to appropriate the places by marking them with their name: to mean precisely that they frequented these places. Would the graffiti be a coherent group of motives for which the human motivations would be recurrent? This is unlikely and the nine fields presented in this book are rather likely to consider the variability of the logics that lead to the graphic act.

O autorze

Hameau, Philippe Philippe Hameau is an anthropologist at the Université Côte d'Azur (Nice). His work focuses on graphic acts from prehistory to the present day: explaining the variability of iconographic corpora through the study of their social, cultural and ideal contexts and searching for the rules that run through the graphic act, whatever its cultural atmosphere.