List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi
PART I: Reading Graffiti, Street Art and the City
- Graffiti, Street Art and the Dialectics of the City
Jeff Ferrell
- Art or Crime or Both at the Same Time? On the Ambiguity of Images in Public Space
Alison Young
- Reading Between the [Plot] Lines: Framing Graffiti as Multimodal Practice
Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
- Interviewing Walls: Towards a Method of Reading Hybrid Surface Inscriptions
Sabina Andron
- Graffiti, Street Art and the Democratic City
Kurt Iveson
PART II: Writing Graffiti, Street Art and the City
- Street Art is a Period, PERIOD: Or, Classificatory Confusion and Intermural Art
Rafael Schacter
- Expressive Measures: An Ecology of the Public Domain
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
- Dead Ends and Urban Insignias: Writing Graffiti and Street Art (Hi)Stories along the U.N. Buffer Zone in Nicosia, 2010-2014
Panos Leventis
- The December 2008 Uprising’s Stencil Images in Athens: Writing or Inventing Traces of the Future?
Stavros Stavrides
- Repetitive Repertoires: How Writing about Cairene Graffiti has Turned into a Serial Monotony
Mona Abaza
PART III: Representing Graffiti, Street Art and the City
- São Paulo’s Pixação and Street Art: Representations of or Responses to Brazilian Modernism?
Alexander Lamazares
- Defensible Aesthetics: Creative Resistance to Urban Policies in Ottawa
Deborah Landry
- #Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data
Lachlan MacDowall
- Representations of Graffiti and the City in the Novel El francotirador paciente: Readings of the Emergent Urban Body in Madrid
Stephen Luis Vilaseca
- Long Live the Tag: Representing the Foundations of Graffiti
Gregory Snyder
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