Ornament and Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138292154)

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.

Author: Rafael Schacter
ISBN-10: 113829215X
ISBN-13: 9781138292154
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2016
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.66d