Jacob Kimvall

Broschiertes Buch

The G-Word

Virtuosity and Violation, Negotiating and Transforming Graffiti

Beschreibung

Why does the CIA praise graffiti as a colourful symbol of the optimism and hope of the Western World while officials in many cities describe the same phenomenon as a criminal activity and a representation of unsafety and social problems? Graffiti is a word used to denote a complex system of actions and things, which is often described as a singular phenomenon. The G-Word visualises how different institutions, public and commercial interests have acted to influence and affect the understanding of graffiti as both art, crime and a broad socio-cultural phenomenon.

Autor

Jacob Kimvall (b. 1972) is a Swedish art critic and lecturer on visual culture. In 1992 he co-founded the international graffiti magazine Underground Productions (UP), and I worked as one of the magazine's editors throughout the 1990s. In December 2014 he successfully defended his PhD-thesis in Art History at Stockholm University: "THE G-WORD: virtuosity and violation, negotiating and transforming graffiti" examines the historiography of graffiti and suggests that this subcultural phenomenon should be understood as jointly produced by subcultural and institutional agents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dokument Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9789185639687
• ISBN-10: 9185639680
• Artikelnr.: 42389165