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Ornament and Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon

Ornament and Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon

Hardcover

Series: Architecture

Art HistoryGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1472409981
ISBN13: 9781472409980
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2014
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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 seen to reface rather than deface the city, operating within a modality of contemporary civic ritual.

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