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Graffiti and street art / Anna Wacławek.

by Wacławek, Anna.

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Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Graffiti artists -- 21st century.

9780500204078 (pbk.)

0500204071 (pbk.)

208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.

From graffiti to post-graffiti. Signature graffiti writing -- The tag -- Throwies -- Pieces -- Tools of the trade -- Kings, toys and crews -- Urban painting -- Stencils -- Logos -- Characters -- Graffiti's genealogy. Writing style -- Graffiti in motion -- A necessary crime -- 'Hip-hop graffiti' -- Forays into galleries -- Basquiat and Haring -- Street art and the city. Street art as public art -- Contesting 'public' space -- Defining a community -- The city as context -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Performing street art -- Identity politics -- Post-graffiti, site and space. The liminal -- But what does it do? -- Same work, multiple sites -- Location, location, location -- The material support and the work itself -- Urban visual culture. Visual culture and art history -- Street art off the streets -- In the gallery -- On the internet -- Reclaiming the streets : remixing, culture jamming and subvertising -- Urban painting today -- Artists' websites.

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