Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367338152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

Mitja Velikonja

Opis

This theoretically and empirically grounded book uses case studies of political graffiti in the post-socialist Balkans and Central Europe to explore the use of graffiti as a subversive political media.

Spis treści

Preface: Toward a New Interdisciplinary Science – Graffitology

Part One: Introduction to Graffiti and Street Art Studies

1. Mapping (Political) Graffiti and Street Art

1. Dirty Words on Clean Walls – Dilemmas in Defining Graffiti and Street Art
2. Poetics on the Wall: Characteristics of Aesthetic/Subcultural Graffiti and Street Art
3. Politics on the Wall: Characteristics of Political Graffiti and Street Art

2. Types, Styles and Techniques of Graffiti and Street Art
3. Ways, Sites and Methods of Researching Political Graffiti and Street Art

1. Graffitography – Photographing as a Way of Collecting Visual Data
2. Multiangular Approach: Four Sites of Meaning of Graffiti
3. Methods of Researching Political Graffiti and Street Art

Part Two: Post-Socialist Graffiti-Scapes – Case Studies

4. Yugoslavia after Yugoslavia: Graffiti and Street Art about Yugoslavia in the Post-Yugoslav Urbanscape
5. Contested Heroes – Gavrilo Princip and Rudolf Maister as Subcultural Icons
6. Nature as Politics - The Motif of Mt. Triglav in Graffiti and Street Art
7. Shameful Compliance - Balkan Nationalist Graffiti and Street Art
8. Spraying Hatred – Extreme-Right Graffiti and Street Art in Slovenia
9. The New Others – Visual Ideology of Refugees in Contemporary Slovenia
10. Chosen Few - Football Fan Graffiti and Street Art
11. One Club, One Honor! – The Graffitiscape of Slovenian Football Fans

Conclusion: Power of the Street (Art), Powerlessness of (Street) Art

O autorze

Mitja Velikonja, PhD, is a Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.