Title:
Trespass : a history of uncommissioned urban art
Author:
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
Köln : Taschen, c2010.
Physical Description:
318 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 33 cm.
ISBN:
9783836509640
Abstract:
A history of graffiti and unsanctioned street art explores its local origins and its transformation into a global phenomenon, discussing its outlaw status, key artists, and the spread of self-expression in social spaces.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Preface : City view / Marc and Sara Schiller -- Introduction : Where angels dare to tread / Carlo McCormick -- Rules of the game -- Conquest of space -- Public memory / private secrets -- Deviant signs, free art, and contra-consumerism -- Environmental reclamations -- Magical thinking -- Non-figuratively speaking -- Urban folk -- Afterword : Just do it / Anne Pasternak -- Appendix : Graffiti and U.S. law / J. Tony Serra.
Language:
English
