Topic:Graffiti and Street Art
Details: Graffiti and Street Art
Discuss how both theorists and practitioners within your chosen category have understood the role of visual culture as a form of activism. Should focus particularly on the methods and context of the work and how this affects the messages conveyed.
Discuss and engage with the ideas of other writers and develop your own position on the subject, having taken the ideas and opinions of other writers into consideration. Having your own opinion but it should be an educated opinion based on research and must show that you have taken the opinions of others into consideration.
Please do add images supporting parts of the essay.
Some readings:
Cockcroft, E., Weber, J.P.P., Cockcroft, J.D., Lippard, L.R., Keppel, B. and Drescher, T.W. (1998) Toward a people's art: The contemporary mural movement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Reshad, K., Abdoh, S., Ackley, B. and Araghi, S. (2008) Urban Iran. New York: Mark Batty Publisher, Amsterdam.
Tapies, X.A. and Tàpies, X.A. (2007) Street art and the war on terror: How the world's best graffiti artists said no to the Iraq war. Edited by Eleanor Mathieson. London: Trafalgar Square.
Gröndahl, M., Grondahl, M. and Manco, T. (2013) Revolution graffiti: Street art of the new Egypt. Farnborough: Thames & Hudson.
Hundertmark, C. (2006) The art of rebellion: The world of urban art activism: No. 2. Edited by Christian Hundertmark. Germany: Publikat Verlags und Handels KG.
Jacobson, M. and Thomson, M. (2000) Dom kallar oss klottrare: They call us vandals: Svensk/Swedish graffiti. Stockholm: Dokument Forlag.
Kunzle, D. and Escoto, M. D' (1995) The murals of revolutionary Nicaragua: 1979-1992. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Walde, C. (2015) Mural XXL: What graffiti and street art did next. United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.
No# of Pages:10 pages (2,500 words)
Subject Area:Visual Arts
Paper Style:Harvard
No# of Sources Required:7