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Street Art, Public City - Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination (Hardcover)
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Street Art, Public City - Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination (Hardcover)
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What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a
crime? Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has
emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of
uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a
variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its
practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time
the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction and have
become collectable aesthetic commodities. Such paradoxical
responses show that street art challenges conventional
understandings of culture, law, crime and art. Street Art, Public
City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination engages with those
paradoxes in order to understand how street art reveals new modes
of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories
of street art and the motivations of street artists, and the
experiences both of making street art and looking at street art in
public space. It considers the ways in which street art has become
an integral part of the identity of cities such as London, New
York, Berlin, and Melbourne, at the same time as street art has
become increasingly criminalised. It investigates the implications
of street art for conceptions of property and authority, and
suggests that street art and the urban imagination can point us
towards a different kind of city: the public city. Street Art,
Public City will be of interest to readers concerned with art,
culture, law, cities and urban space, and also to readers in the
fields of legal studies, cultural criminology, urban geography,
cultural studies and art more generally.
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