Painting Publics - Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter (Hardcover)

Public art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities. Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some state support for the production and maintenance of civic education through visual culture. In her examination of graffiti culture and its spaces of inscription, Bruce allows us to see moments where practitioners actively reckon with possibility.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Caitlin Frances Bruce
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-1444-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Other graphic art forms > Graffiti Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	1-4399-1444-3
Barcode:	9781439914441

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