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Alison Young - Street Art, Public City - 9780415538695 - V9780415538695
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Street Art, Public City

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Description for Street Art, Public City Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFJG; JFCA; JHB; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452.

What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime?

Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction and have become collectable aesthetic commodities. Such paradoxical responses show that street art challenges conventional understandings of culture, law, crime and art.

Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime ... Read more engages with those paradoxes in order to understand how street art reveals new modes of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories of street art and the motivations of street artists, and the experiences both of making street art and looking at street art in public space. It considers the ways in which street art has become an integral part of the identity of cities such as London, New York, Berlin, and Melbourne, at the same time as street art has become increasingly criminalised. It investigates the implications of street art for conceptions of property and authority, and suggests that street art and the urban imagination can point us towards a different kind of city: the public city.

Street Art, Public City will be of interest to readers concerned with art, culture, law, cities and urban space, and also to readers in the fields of legal studies, cultural criminology, urban geography, cultural studies and art more generally.

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Product Details

Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415538695
SKU
V9780415538695
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Alison Young
Alison Young is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Reviews for Street Art, Public City
Winner of the 2015 Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities ‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy ‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it ... Read more

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