04350nam 22004815 450 99656557050331620231209095929.03-11-132630-610.1515/9783111326306(CKB)29270030000041(DE-B1597)662383(DE-B1597)9783111326306(EXLCZ)992927003000004120231209h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGraffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding /ed. by Ondřej Škrabal, Leah Mascia, Ann Lauren Osthof, Malena RatzkeBerlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]20231 online resource (VI, 505 p.)Studies in Manuscript Cultures ,2365-9696 ;359783111326283 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Graffiti: Terminology, Context, Semiotics, Documentation -- Africa -- Writing Wherever Possible and Meaningful: Graffiti Culture in Ancient Egypt. Context, Terminology, Documentation -- 'Spray It Loud': Hip Hop Graffiti Culture and Politics in Dar es Salaam, 2003-2018 -- America -- Incised Images among the Palaces and Temples: The Content and Meaning of Pre-Columbian Maya Graffiti -- Graffiti and the Media: Between Politics, Art and Vandalism -- Central and East Asia -- Old Uyghur Graffiti Inscriptions from Central Asia -- Chinese Graffiti in Dunhuang? -- Transcribed Flows and Arrhythmias: 'Graffiti' in Relation to Epigraphic and Artistic Trajectories in Today's Mainland China -- Intermezzo -- The Spray Can as an Attitude to Life between Illegal Action and Commercial Art: A Conversation on the Emergence of a Modern Graffiti Form with the Artist Mirko Reisser alias DAIM -- South and West Asia -- Graffiti in Ancient India: Towards the Definition of a Genre of Indian Epigraphy -- Graffiti in Middle Iranian: Some Preliminary Notes -- Voices in the Wilderness: Some Unexpected Uses of Graffiti -- Medieval and Early Modern Graffiti in Eastern Mediterranean: A New Methodological Approach -- Europe -- Documenting Ancient Graffiti: Text, Image, Support and Access -- Curating Graffiti: The Exhibition Wände│Walls in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart -- Contributors -- IndexOver the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious documentation projects. The growing understanding of graffiti as a perennial, universal phenomenon is spurring holistic consideration of this mode of graphic expression across time and space. Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding complements recent efforts to showcase the diversity in creation, reception, and curation of graffiti around the globe, throughout history and up to the present day. reflecting on methodology, concepts, and terminology as well as spatial, social, and historical contexts of graffiti, the book's fourteen chapters cover ancient Egypt, Rome, Northern Arabia, Persia, India, and the Maya; medieval Eastern Mediterranean, Turfan, and Dunhuang; and contemporary Tanzania, Brazil, China, and Germany. As a whole, the collection provides a comprehensive toolkit for newcomers to the field of graffiti studies and appeals to specialists interested in viewing these materials in a cross-cultural perspective.LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisacshEpigraphy.archaeology.history of writing.social history.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.Mascia Leah, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtOsthof Ann Lauren, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtRatzke Malena, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtŠkrabal Ondřej, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996565570503316Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed3602693UNISA