Words of the Prophets treats graffiti as a form of political protest during the austerity crisis in Thessaloniki, the toxic waste debacle in Naples, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the rise of drug use in Chicago.
Words of the Prophets treats graffiti as a form of political protest during the austerity crisis in Thessaloniki, the toxic waste debacle in Naples, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the rise of drug use in Chicago.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: from “Kilroy Was Here” to Krik Kong Part 1 Four Murals and Their Environs 1 Thessaloniki: a Born-Again Faith in Graffiti 1 Graffiti in Thessaloniki, 2014 2 Athens, Exarchia, and Missolonghi 2.1 The Street Is My Gallery 3 Exarchia 3.1 St. Paul Six Years Later: Graffiti Has Now Become Inartistic Sloganeering 3.2 Messolonghi 4 Conclusion 2 Naples, Graffiti in Naples, or Rubbish Is Gold 1 Two Visits to Naples 2 “Rubbish Is Gold”: Three Films on Neapolitan Garbage 2.1 “We Want to Breathe! It’s Our Right!” 3 Parking among the Corpses of Syracuse 4 Approaching Florence 4.1 Florence: Masterworks outside the Uffizi 4.2 On Bullshit in Florence 5 Venice 6 Between Venice and Milan, 2020 7 Approaching Milan 8 Roma Termini 3 Gdäsk: Remembering Solidarity 1 An Unguided Tour of Gdäsk 2 Krik Kong 3 Solidarity Museum 4 Courtesy Solidarity Museum, Gdäsk 5 Fonts of Fascism, or the Heaviness of the Solidarity Museum 5.1 Westerplatte Tour 5.2 A Closer Look at Krik Kong 6 My Interview with Krik Kong 6.1 Art School vs. Street Knowledge 7 Conclusion: from Andrez Wajda’s Man of Iron to Warsaw 4 Welcome to Chicago 1 Welcome to Chicago/ We Can Change the World (1971) 1.1 Welcome to Chicagoland: Redux 1.2 Is Rap a Black Art Form 2 Conclusion: Chicago, Philadelphia, New York 2.1 Philadelphia 2.2 New York 2.3 One Last Mural
Part 2 Graffiti as Narrative Art 5 Byron, Blake, and the George Floyd Protests: the Evolution of Fonts 1 Lord Byron: Graffiti Artist 1.1 Byron’s Name at Ferrara 1.2 Graffiti: Local and Global Practices 2 Graffiti Practices in England 3 Visions of Belshazzar: Ortygia, Syracuse, and the Book of Daniel 4 Graffiti in the South Bronx 5 Who’s John Lennon? 6 Lady Pink and Lord Byron: the Museum of Graffiti in Miami Beach 6 Orozco, Pomona College’s Prometheus 1 Blake, Orozco, and the Graffiti/Mural Tradition 2 The Parable of the Ten Virgins 3 Lady Pink and the Art of Pointing 4 George Floyd: “Corporate Media, Graffiti, and the Visualizations of the George Floyd Protests” in 2020 5 Calligraphy: from Istanbul to the South Bronx 6 Hagia Sophia 7 Words of the Prophets on Walls and Curtains 8 Cultural Riches vs. Benign Neglect 7 Conclusion Appendix: In the Words of Contemporary Artists Notes on Artists and Interviewers References Index
Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: from “Kilroy Was Here” to Krik Kong Part 1 Four Murals and Their Environs 1 Thessaloniki: a Born-Again Faith in Graffiti 1 Graffiti in Thessaloniki, 2014 2 Athens, Exarchia, and Missolonghi 2.1 The Street Is My Gallery 3 Exarchia 3.1 St. Paul Six Years Later: Graffiti Has Now Become Inartistic Sloganeering 3.2 Messolonghi 4 Conclusion 2 Naples, Graffiti in Naples, or Rubbish Is Gold 1 Two Visits to Naples 2 “Rubbish Is Gold”: Three Films on Neapolitan Garbage 2.1 “We Want to Breathe! It’s Our Right!” 3 Parking among the Corpses of Syracuse 4 Approaching Florence 4.1 Florence: Masterworks outside the Uffizi 4.2 On Bullshit in Florence 5 Venice 6 Between Venice and Milan, 2020 7 Approaching Milan 8 Roma Termini 3 Gdäsk: Remembering Solidarity 1 An Unguided Tour of Gdäsk 2 Krik Kong 3 Solidarity Museum 4 Courtesy Solidarity Museum, Gdäsk 5 Fonts of Fascism, or the Heaviness of the Solidarity Museum 5.1 Westerplatte Tour 5.2 A Closer Look at Krik Kong 6 My Interview with Krik Kong 6.1 Art School vs. Street Knowledge 7 Conclusion: from Andrez Wajda’s Man of Iron to Warsaw 4 Welcome to Chicago 1 Welcome to Chicago/ We Can Change the World (1971) 1.1 Welcome to Chicagoland: Redux 1.2 Is Rap a Black Art Form 2 Conclusion: Chicago, Philadelphia, New York 2.1 Philadelphia 2.2 New York 2.3 One Last Mural
Part 2 Graffiti as Narrative Art 5 Byron, Blake, and the George Floyd Protests: the Evolution of Fonts 1 Lord Byron: Graffiti Artist 1.1 Byron’s Name at Ferrara 1.2 Graffiti: Local and Global Practices 2 Graffiti Practices in England 3 Visions of Belshazzar: Ortygia, Syracuse, and the Book of Daniel 4 Graffiti in the South Bronx 5 Who’s John Lennon? 6 Lady Pink and Lord Byron: the Museum of Graffiti in Miami Beach 6 Orozco, Pomona College’s Prometheus 1 Blake, Orozco, and the Graffiti/Mural Tradition 2 The Parable of the Ten Virgins 3 Lady Pink and the Art of Pointing 4 George Floyd: “Corporate Media, Graffiti, and the Visualizations of the George Floyd Protests” in 2020 5 Calligraphy: from Istanbul to the South Bronx 6 Hagia Sophia 7 Words of the Prophets on Walls and Curtains 8 Cultural Riches vs. Benign Neglect 7 Conclusion Appendix: In the Words of Contemporary Artists Notes on Artists and Interviewers References Index
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