Chandra Morrison Ariyo

Metagraffiti

Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art. Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo, Brazil and Santiago de Chile, Chandra Morrison Ariyo shows how practitioners use metagraffiti features to influence public perceptions about this artform and its effect on the urban environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834415
• ISBN-10: 1978834411
• Artikelnr.: 70159913

Autorenporträt

CHANDRA MORRISON ARIYO is a visiting research fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Metagraffiti: Envisioning a Concept
Chapter 2: Urban Image: Painting (in) the Latin American City
Chapter 3: Signature Wordplay: Self-Naming, Misspelling, and Rewriting the
Social Order
Chapter 4: Figurative Threat: Stigma Embodiment and Graffiti's Violent
Characterization
Chapter 5: Reflective Structures: On Murals and Mirroring in the Spatial
Imagination
Chapter 6: Painting Pollution: Cleaning the City and Recycling Social
Values with Street Art
Chapter 7: Graffiti Intimacies: Seeing the City in Color