Monumental Graffiti
Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City
$64.79
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.
What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument?
In Monumental Graffiti, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049221 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262049228 |
| Author: | Rafael Schacter |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“…thinking about the present as a moment when many are needing to urgently reimagine the aesthetics of resistance, dissensus, alterity, and otherness, Monumental Graffiti is required reading.”
—Scratching the Surface
“Schacter’s exuberant academic book traces the line of graffiti, using ‘public space’ as the frame (literally), balancing the individual acts of graffiti writers and other public-space remodelers against the monuments and official totems of colonization that tag spaces you might otherwise think belonged to the people.”
—4columns
“[Monumental Graffiti], with numerous full-color photographs of examples, from the crude and quick-drawn tag to the massive mural-esque installations, is academic in its examination, and accessible, too, in the way it considers not just what graffiti is and does, but how that contrasts with what the monument is and does, the way it enforces and bolsters institutions and institutional heritage.”
—The Boston Globe
“A vivid and ambitious new book.”
—Critical Inquiry
Rafael Schacter
Rafael Schacter is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London and head of the Material, Visual, and Digital Culture subsection. He is the author of Street to Studio, Ornament and Order, and the award-winning World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Schacter has curated exhibitions at London’s Tate Modern, Somerset House, and many other galleries.
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