Street Art of Resistance 1st Edition

Street Art of Resistance 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319633299,3319633295,9783319633305, 3319633309

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319633309
• ISBN-13: 9783319633305
• Author: Sarah H. Awad 

This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world. Aesthetic devices such as murals, tags, posters, street performances and caricatures are discussed in terms of how they are employed to occupy urban spaces and present alternative visions of social reality. Based on empirical research, the authors use the framework of creative psychology to explore the aesthetic dimensions of resistance that can be found in graffiti, art, music, poetry and other creative cultural forms. Chapters include case studies from countries including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico and Spain to shed new light on the social, cultural and political dynamics of street art not only locally, but globally. This innovative collection will be of particular interest to scholars of social and political psychology, urban studies and the wider sociologies and is essential reading for all those interested in the role of art in social change.

Table contents:

1. Art and Social Change: The Role of Creativity and Wonder
2. Subjectivity, Aesthetics, and the Nexus of Injustice: From Traditional to Street Art
3. Resisting Forms: Prolegomena to an Aesthetics of Resistance
4. Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism
5. The Resistance Passed Through Here: Arabic Graffiti of Resistance, Before and After the Arab Uprisings
6. The Arabic Language as Creative Resistance
7. Speaking Walls: Contentious Memories in Belfast’s Murals
8. Inventive ReXistence: Notes on Brazil Graffiti and City Tension
9. Embodied Walls and Extended Skins: Exploring Mental Health Through Tataus and Graffiti
10. Indigenous Graffiti and Street Art as Resistance
11. Representations of Resistance: Ironic Iconography in a Southern Mexican Social Movement
12. The Democratic Potential of Artistic Expression in Public Space: Street Art and Graffiti as Rebellious Acts
13. The Aesthetics of Social Movements in Spain
14. Sheherazade Says No: Artful Resistance in Contemporary Egyptian Political Cartoon

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