Reading the Walls of Bogota (eBook)

Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

Alba Griffin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
345 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8993-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. <i>Reading the Walls of Bogot</i> uses graffiti and street art to explore the urban imaginaries of violence in Bogot, Colombia. These artistic forms are produced and received in different ways in different areas of the city and offer an insight into citizens everyday experiences and perceptions of violence from the political, to the personal, to that of structural inequality. Through graffiti, in which critiques of memory, space, politics, and aesthetics are embedded, artists and their viewers form vernacular theories through which they interpret the world and the spaces they inhabit. By focusing on creative expression, Alba Griffin shows how Bogots residents respond to imaginaries of violence, how they critique the norms, how they appropriate space to challenge or negotiate violence, and how they push back against inequality.

Autor

Alba Griffin is a researcher and associate lecturer in Latin American cultural studies, with a particular interest in violence, popular culture, and urban ethnography. She teaches at Newcastle University and works for the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the same institution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Illuminations
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Colombia • colombian culture • ethnography • Graffiti • graffiti history • social imaginaries • Street Art • University of Pittsburgh Press • urban landscape • urban studies • visual arts
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8993-X / 082298993X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8993-6 / 9780822989936