Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and in terms of visual pollution. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing...

For fifty years, graffiti and street art have been challenging conventions and stimulating debate around our perceptions of what constitutes art. This ground-breaking book presents a new interpretation of where street art and graffiti are today. Introducing the concept of Intermural Art - art in between the walls - Schacter presents a genre in transition. While many street and graffiti artists are still challenging the orthodoxies of the public sphere, an increasingly large group are furtively entering the institution, no longer slavishly reproducing exterior works inside, but instead...