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 …
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
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
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…
