Chapter 1 The Situational Artwork; encounter watching JR, Chapter 2 The Cities in the City; encounter criminal damage?, Chapter 3 Cityscapes; encounter losing the image, Chapter 4 Criminalising the Image; encounter things on walls, Chapter 5 Street Art and Spatial Politics; encounter Banksy under glass, Chapter 6 Transformations: Urban Imagination in the Public City, Bibliography, Index
Alison Young is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Winner of the 2015 Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law,
Literature and the Humanities‘My favourite criminologist in the
world’- Banksy‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject
to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a
brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of
street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently
engenders in the control of public and private space, and the licit
and illicit behaviour of artists who choose to stay away from the
over-managed space of the museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne,
Director, National Portrait Gallery, London‘From graffiti to
"guerrilla knitting", political "pieces" to place-making
"paste-ups", the various homologies and diverse characteristics of
contemporary street art can seem bewildering, even to the most
hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp, stylish book provides a
reliable and theoretically informed route map that, not only
demystifies the genre, but also poses some important questions
about street art’s democratic and political potential. Alison Young
proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging tour guide as she takes
us on a fascinating excursion across the contours of the
international urban art scene and deep into the subterranean and
ever-evolving world of today’s street artists. Whatever your
feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of urban
mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of street
art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think more
deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first century’s
most controversial art form.’- Keith Hayward, Professor of
Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art,
Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding
the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities.
Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism
and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the
contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital
dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University
of New South Wales, Australia'One of the most notable achievements
of Street Art, Public City is the lucidity that comes from having
been written by someone with a background in law. As easily
narrative and descriptive as the book sometimes becomes (and there
are a lot of street art stories in it), it never loses a sharpness
of argument and a powerful sense of direction.' - Sabina Andron,
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy‘Street art is an
elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much
prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous
analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global
phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently engenders in the control
of public and private space, and the licit and illicit behaviour of
artists who choose to stay away from the over-managed space of the
museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait
Gallery, London‘From graffiti to "guerrilla knitting", political
"pieces" to place-making "paste-ups", the various homologies and
diverse characteristics of contemporary street art can seem
bewildering, even to the most hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp,
stylish book provides a reliable and theoretically informed route
map that, not only demystifies the genre, but also poses some
important questions about street art’s democratic and political
potential. Alison Young proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging
tour guide as she takes us on a fascinating excursion across the
contours of the international urban art scene and deep into the
subterranean and ever-evolving world of today’s street artists.
Whatever your feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of
urban mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of
street art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think
more deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first
century’s most controversial art form.’ - Keith Hayward, Professor
of Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art,
Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding
the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities.
Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism
and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the
contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital
dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University
of New South Wales, Australia
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