Voices in aerosol : youth culture, institutional attunement, and graffiti in urban Mexico / Caitlin Frances Bruce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruce, Caitlin Frances, 1986- author.

Series:

Visualidades (University of Texas Press)

Visualidades

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graffiti--Political aspects--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Graffiti.

Graffiti artists--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Graffiti artists.

Public art spaces--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Public art spaces.

Art and state--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Art and state.

Art, Municipal--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Art, Municipal.

Group work in art--Mexico--León (Guanajuato).

Group work in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Looking specifically at the Mexican city of Leâon, in Guanajuato, the book shows graffiti as a contested tool for "voicing" public demands. It considers the changing perceptions and recognition of graffiti artists, their right to the city, and the use of public space from 2000 to 2018. Bruce studies the history of independent graffiti and state-sanctioned graffiti art to claim that its institutionalization creates tensions in the social relationships inside artist collectives, and fluctuating ideas about urban art, creative labor, and neoliberal entrepreneurship"-- ‡c Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Introduction

One. Frisson: Early Graffiti Writers Remapping the City

Two. Noise: Desmadre in Neoliberal Geographies

Youth Voice against Zero Tolerance

Three. Harmonization: Convivencia and Municipal Overtures to Writers

Four. Amplification: Cultivating Acceptance through the Mural as Civic and Affective Form

Five. Resonance: Urban Art and Good Vibrations

Conclusion. Susurration: Cross-Border Institutional Attunements and Social Infrastructure

León as Global Example

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477327685

1477327681

OCLC:

1402814942