Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City
暫譯: 紀念碑式的塗鴉：追溯城市中的公共藝術與抵抗
Schacter, Rafael
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-10-01
- 售價: $1,590
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,511
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 400
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 0262049228
- ISBN-13: 9780262049221
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商品描述
What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.
What is graffiti--vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be. Monumental Graffiti unpacks today's iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in--and whose are excluded from--public space. Written from 20 years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis AlYs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordan Matta-Clark, William Pope. L, Cy Twombly, and many more. Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.
What is graffiti--vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be. Monumental Graffiti unpacks today's iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in--and whose are excluded from--public space. Written from 20 years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis AlYs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordan Matta-Clark, William Pope. L, Cy Twombly, and many more. Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
塗鴉對當代社會的意義，以及為何它作為一種公民表達形式需要我們的緊急關注。
作者簡介
Rafael Schacter is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London and head of the Material, Visual, and Digital Culture subsection. He is the author of Street to Studio, Ornament and Order, and the award-winning World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Schacter has curated exhibitions at London's Tate Modern, Somerset House, and many other galleries.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
拉斐爾·沙克特（Rafael Schacter）是倫敦大學學院人類學系的副教授，並且是物質、視覺與數位文化小組的負責人。他是《從街道到工作室》（Street to Studio）、《裝飾與秩序》（Ornament and Order）以及獲獎作品《街頭藝術與塗鴉世界地圖》（World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti）的作者。沙克特曾在倫敦的泰特現代美術館（Tate Modern）、薩默塞特之家（Somerset House）及許多其他畫廊策劃展覽。
