Screen LibraryThe Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond /
This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships with major social institutions, it explores the contemporary dynamics between graffiti, society, the art...
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Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2800-7 |
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This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships with major social institutions, it explores the contemporary dynamics between graffiti, society, the art world and social media, paying particular attention to how New York City s political elite has reacted to graffiti. Despite its major structural transformation, officials in New York continue to construe graffiti writing culture as a monolithic, criminal enterprise, a harbinger of economic and ci |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XIII,160pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9789811028007 |
| Index Number: | HM623 |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The extraction of subway graffiti: The late 1960s to 1989 -- The clean train era: Creating a space for the legal production of graffiti -- Responding to the new graffiti writing culture: Broader publics, art worlds, and the sphere of commodity exchange -- The moral panic over graffiti in New York City: Political elites and the mass print media -- Engendering desire for neoliberal penality and the logic of growth machines -- Conclusion. |