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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Reading the Walls of Bogotá: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

Reading the Walls of Bogotá: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

Griffin, Alba

Hardcover

Series: Illuminations

General World HistoryGraffiti & Street ArtSouth American History

ISBN10: 082294779X
ISBN13: 9780822947790
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Jun 13 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogotá uses graffiti and street art to explore the urban imaginaries of violence in Bogotá, Colombia. These artistic forms are produced and received in different ways in different areas of the city and offer an insight into citizens' everyday experiences and perceptions of violence from the political, to the personal, to that of structural inequality. Through graffiti, in which critiques of memory, space, politics, and aesthetics are embedded, artists and their viewers form vernacular theories through which they interpret the world and the spaces they inhabit. By focusing on creative expression, Alba Griffin shows how Bogotá's residents respond to imaginaries of violence, how they critique the norms, how they appropriate space to challenge or negotiate violence, and how they push back against inequality.

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