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Conflict graffiti : from revolution to gentrification
- Title
- Conflict graffiti : from revolution to gentrification / John Lennon.
- Author
- Lennon, John, 1975-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- ix, 272 pages, 20 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "Graffiti is by nature a protean art. In movies, it is often the backdrop used to create a sense of danger and lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. In protests, it is a resistive tool, visually displaying the cacophony of disparate voices and interests that come together to make up a movement. Every graffito has an unstable afterlife-fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed, reinterpreted, or painted over. In short, as this book artfully explains, graffiti makes for messy politics. It brings the unwieldiness of the crises it engages to the fore, giving shape to a conflict's evolving nature. The book closely examines the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones-moving from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Arab Spring in Egypt to the tourist attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall, to the street art used for city rebranding and beautification in Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but has also been variously appropriated, policed, and exported, ushering in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anaesthetized forgetting. Yet, the book concludes, as protest movements change and adapt in turn, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them, opening up new apertures of resistance with every wave"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 22-106
- ISBN
- 9780226815664
- 0226815668
- 9780226815695
- 0226815692
- LCCN
- 2021021310
- OCLC
- 1241244182
- Author
- Lennon, John, 1975- author.
- Title
- Conflict graffiti : from revolution to gentrification / John Lennon.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-106