Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning, often stylistically crude and aesthetically aggressive, yet always visually arresting, they fill our field of…
This book investigates street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Cities are engaged in a continual process of cultural production through which their self-image is developed and refined; a process that is sometimes legal -- as with …
Based on field research conducted by the author in 2008, this book consists of a careful examination of graffiti written on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the Israeli-built "separation wall". With interviews with college students on both sides about the graffiti
An insight into the life and work of the graffiti artist - through the experiences that he and the author Robert Clarke shared together during Banksy's formative years. Clarke takes us through his first counters with Banksy, which took place in a hotel in New York in the 1990s