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Voices in aerosol : youth culture, institutional attunement, and graffiti in urban Mexico
- Title
- Voices in aerosol : youth culture, institutional attunement, and graffiti in urban Mexico / Caitlin Frances Bruce.
- Author
- Bruce, Caitlin Frances, 1986-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 280 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Looking specifically at the Mexican city of León, 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"--
- Series Statement
- Visualidades: studies in Latin American visual history
- Subject
- Graffiti > Political aspects > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Graffiti artists > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Public art spaces > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Art and state > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Art, Municipal > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Group work in art > Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Art and state
- Art, Municipal
- Graffiti artists
- Graffiti > Political aspects
- Group work in art
- Public art spaces
- Graffiti
- Mexico > León (Guanajuato)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Frisson : early graffiti writers remapping the city -- Noise : desmadre in neoliberal geographies; youth voice against zero tolerance -- Harmonization : convivencia and municipal overtures to writers -- Amplification : cultivating acceptance through the mural as civic and affective form -- Resonance : urban art and good vibrations -- Conclusion. Susurration : cross-border institutional attunements and social infrastructure; León as global example
- Call Number
- JQE 24-261
- ISBN
- 9781477327678
- 1477327673
- 9781477327685 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781477327692 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023005955
- OCLC
- 1371139884
- Author
- Bruce, Caitlin Frances, 1986- author.
- Title
- Voices in aerosol : youth culture, institutional attunement, and graffiti in urban Mexico / Caitlin Frances Bruce.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Visualidades: studies in Latin American visual history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 24-261