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

• Autore: Schacter Rafael
• Pubblicazione: Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
• 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
• 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.: 9910829152703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II