The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships with major social institutions, it explores the contemporary dynamics between graffiti, society, the art...

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Main Author Kramer, Ronald (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Youth > Social life and customs.
Ethnology.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811028007
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-2800-7
Physical DescriptionXIII, 160 p. 11 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The extraction of subway graffiti: The late 1960s to 1989
  • The "clean train" era: Creating a space for the legal production of graffiti
  • Responding to the new graffiti writing culture: Broader publics, art worlds, and the sphere of commodity exchange
  • The moral panic over graffiti in New York City: Political elites and the mass print media
  • Engendering desire for neoliberal penality and the logic of growth machines
  • Conclusion.

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