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Ornament and order : graffiti, street art and the parergon / / by Rafael Schacter



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Autore: Schacter Rafael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ornament and order : graffiti, street art and the parergon / / by Rafael Schacter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
Disciplina: 306.47
Soggetto topico: Decoration and ornament - Social aspects
Graffiti - Social aspects
Street art - Social aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I Ornament; 1 Ornament; 2 Consensual Ornamentation; 3 Agonistic Ornamentation; II Order; 4 Order; 5 Inversion, Subversion, Perversion; 6 Play, Risk and the Picaresque; Conclusion; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world's most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are
Titolo autorizzato: Ornament and order  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-315-59911-2
1-317-08500-0
1-317-08499-3
1-4724-0999-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786795803321
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