ART / Graffiti & Street Art

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This research focuses on the materiality of street art and its contribution to shaping public spaces and representing the social identity of urban communities. In contemporary urban landscapes, street art practices reflect the complexity of social, political, and cultural dynamics, where material elements—such as paint, wall planes, and urban spatial textures—are not positioned solely as visual mediums but rather as…

Reference · Wikidata

art that is public and temporary in public spaces

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amid uncertainty and the challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by …

Full text · Open Library

New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.

Image · DPLA