Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed : Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding / ed. by Ondřej Škrabal, Leah Mascia, Ann Lauren Osthof, Malena Ratzke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mascia, Leah, Editor.

Osthof, Ann Lauren, Editor.

Ratzke, Malena, Editor.

Škrabal, Ondřej, Editor.

Series:

Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series

Studies in Manuscript Cultures , 2365-9696 ; 35

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious documentation projects. The growing understanding of graffiti as a perennial, universal phenomenon is spurring holistic consideration of this mode of graphic expression across time and space. Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding complements recent efforts to showcase the diversity in creation, reception, and curation of graffiti around the globe, throughout history and up to the present day. reflecting on methodology, concepts, and terminology as well as spatial, social, and historical contexts of graffiti, the book's fourteen chapters cover ancient Egypt, Rome, Northern Arabia, Persia, India, and the Maya; medieval Eastern Mediterranean, Turfan, and Dunhuang; and contemporary Tanzania, Brazil, China, and Germany. As a whole, the collection provides a comprehensive toolkit for newcomers to the field of graffiti studies and appeals to specialists interested in viewing these materials in a cross-cultural perspective.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Graffiti: Terminology, Context, Semiotics, Documentation

Africa

Writing Wherever Possible and Meaningful: Graffiti Culture in Ancient Egypt. Context, Terminology, Documentation

'Spray It Loud': Hip Hop Graffiti Culture and Politics in Dar es Salaam, 2003-2018

America

Incised Images among the Palaces and Temples: The Content and Meaning of Pre-Columbian Maya Graffiti

Graffiti and the Media: Between Politics, Art and Vandalism

Central and East Asia

Old Uyghur Graffiti Inscriptions from Central Asia

Chinese Graffiti in Dunhuang?

Transcribed Flows and Arrhythmias: 'Graffiti' in Relation to Epigraphic and Artistic Trajectories in Today's Mainland China

Intermezzo

The Spray Can as an Attitude to Life between Illegal Action and Commercial Art: A Conversation on the Emergence of a Modern Graffiti Form with the Artist Mirko Reisser alias DAIM

South and West Asia

Graffiti in Ancient India: Towards the Definition of a Genre of Indian Epigraphy

Graffiti in Middle Iranian: Some Preliminary Notes

Voices in the Wilderness: Some Unexpected Uses of Graffiti

Medieval and Early Modern Graffiti in Eastern Mediterranean: A New Methodological Approach

Europe

Documenting Ancient Graffiti: Text, Image, Support and Access

Curating Graffiti: The Exhibition Wände│Walls in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Contributors

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

3-11-132630-6

OCLC:

1414457556