Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 16038147
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138600904
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output comprises an extensive introductory chapter and an edited book that contains it: Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City (2017, Routledge). Avramidis co-edited the entire volume and peer-reviewed the 15 chapters.
The book critically investigates underexplored urban contexts in which graffiti and street art appear, sheds light on previously unexamined aspects of these practices, and introduces innovative methodologies regarding the treatment of these images. Throughout, the focus is on the relationship of graffiti and street art with urban space, and the various manifestations of these idiosyncratic meetings. In this book, the emphasis is shifted from what the physical texts say to what these practices and their produced images do in different contexts.
All chapters are original and come from 17 experts in various fields, such as Architecture, Urban Studies, Sociology, Criminology, Anthropology and Visual Cultures, as well as scholars that transcend traditional disciplinary frameworks. This exciting new collection is beneficial to academics and students and accessible to a non-academic audience, such as art practitioners and policymakers alike, or anyone keen on deepening their knowledge on how graffiti and street art affect the ways urban environments are experienced, understood and envisioned.
Avramidis’ substantial introductory chapter (pp. 1-23) offers an overview of graffiti and street art by articulating the specific tensions emerging from the contributions. It maps the existing and emerging theoretical trajectories associated with the subject, identifies the experimental approaches of the field, and situates all these within broader frameworks, literatures and discourses. It sets out the book content, introduces its chapters, and draws thematic as well as methodological linkages between them. The structure of this chapter follows the traditional stages of a graffito piece production in order to highlight the similarities between scholarly and graffiti writing.
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- Non-English
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