Street art of resistance / Sarah H. Awad, Brady Wagoner, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Awad, Sarah H., editor.

Wagoner, Brady, 1980- editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in creativity and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street art--Political aspects.

Street art.

Street art--Political aspects--Case studies.

Art and society.

Art and society--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , [2017]

Contents:

Introducing the street art of resistance / Sarah H. Awad and Brady Wagoner

Part I. Theories of aesthetics, resistance and social change

Art and social change: The role of creativity and wonder / Vlad Petre Glăveanu

Subjectivity, aesthetics, and the nexus of injustice: from the traditional to street art / Thomas Teo

Resisting forms: prolegomena to an aesthetics of resistance / Robert E. Innis

Part II. Image circulation and politics

Indigenous images of democracy on city streets: native representations in contemporary Chilean graffiti and muralism / Guisela Latorre

The resistance passed through here: Arabic graffiti of resistance, before and after the Arab Uprisings / Rana Jarbou

The Arabic language as creative resistance / Basma Hamdy

Part III. Urban space: the city as an extension of self

Speaking walls: contentious memories in Belfast's murals / Daniela Vicherat Mattar

Inventive ReXistence: notes on Brazil graffiti and city tension / Andrea Vieira Zanella

Embodied walls and extended skins: Exploring mental health through tataus and graffiti / Jamie Mcphie

Indigenous graffiti and street art as resistance / Matthew Ryan Smith

Part IV. Artists and social movements

Representations of resistance: Ironic iconography in a southern Mexican social movement / Jayne Howell

The democratic potential of artistic expression in public space: Street art and graffiti as rebellious acts / Cecilia Scholer Nielsen

The aesthetics of social movements in Span / Óscar García Agustín

Sheherazade says no: Artful resistance in contemporary Egyptian political cartoon / Mohamed M. Helmy and Sabine Frerichs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319633299

3319633295

OCLC:

992746644