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Graffiti Lives de Gregory J Snyder

Graffiti Lives

Autor Gregory J Snyder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2011

Destinat studenților în sociologie, cercetătorilor în antropologie urbană și practicienilor din industriile creative, Graffiti Lives oferă o analiză riguroasă a modului în care o subcultură adesea criminalizată funcționează ca o rampă de lansare profesională. Apreciem abordarea autorului Gregory J Snyder, care depășește simpla observație externă; prin participare directă sub pseudonimul „GWIZ”, acesta documentează mecanismele interne ale scenei de graffiti din New York pe parcursul unui deceniu. Subliniem faptul că volumul nu se limitează la estetica vizuală, ci investighează sociologia riscului și construcția identității prin faimă. Textul explică transformarea „tag”-urilor și a „masterpiece”-urilor din acte de vandalism în competențe transferabile. Merită menționat că cercetarea demonstrează cum mulți artiști au migrat din tunelurile de metrou către galerii internaționale sau studiouri de design și tatuaje. Această perspectivă sociologică asupra carierelor „deviante” este susținută de peste șaizeci de documente fotografice, oferind o bază empirică solidă pentru teoriile prezentate. Din punct de vedere academic, lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Crimes of Style, adăugând o dimensiune esențială despre mobilitatea socială și profesionalizarea artiștilor, acolo unde Jeff Ferrell se concentra mai mult pe rezistența politică și criminalizare. În timp ce The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond analizează relația cu instituțiile sociale, volumul de față rămâne ancorat în experiența trăită și în evoluția personală a scriitorilor de graffiti, oferind un studiu de caz detaliat despre succesul în economia creativă contemporană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814740460
ISBN-10: 0814740464
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 8 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 144 x 221 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care subculturile urbane generează capital social și profesional. Este o resursă esențială pentru cei care studiază criminologia alternativă sau sociologia artei, demonstrând că activitățile de la marginea legalității pot fi, paradoxal, un antrenament pentru mediul corporativ competitiv. Recomandăm această ediție pentru echilibrul dintre rigoarea academică și documentarea fotografică autentică.

Descriere scurtă

On the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to “get up,” run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker “GWIZ”), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of new work, created a blackbook for writers to tag, and took countless photographs to document this world - over sixty included in the book.A combination of amazing “flicks” and exhilarating prose, Graffiti Lives is ultimately an exploration into how graffiti writers define themselves. Snyder details that writers are not bound together by appearance or language or birthplace or class but by what they do. And what they do is reach for fame, painting their names as prominently as they can. What’s more, he discovers that, though many public officials think graffiti writing will only lead to other criminal activity, many graffiti writers have turned their youthful exploits into adult careers - from professional aerosol muralists and fine artists to designers of all kinds, employed in such fields as tattooing, studio art, magazine production, fashion, and guerilla marketing. In fact, some of the artists featured have gone on to international acclaim and to their own gallery shows. Snyder’s illuminating work shows that getting up tags, throw-ups, and pieces on New York City’s walls and subway tunnels can lead to getting out into the city’s competitive professional world. Graffiti Lives details the exciting, risky, and surprisingly rewarding pursuits of contemporary graffiti writers.

Recenzii

"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban underground–particularly New York." – New York Post"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminal–including an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags–’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’–profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." – Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new ‘best book on graffiti.’ " – Joe Austin, author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." – Kirkus Reviews"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." – The New York"Graffiti lives sizzles with the illicit energy of the graffiti underground. Snyder knows that energy and he knows where to find it – in the lives of graffiti writers and in the words, images and experiences they create.” Jeff Ferrell, author of Crimes of styles: Urban graffiti and the politics of criminality

Descriere

A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists