Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination

by Alison Young

What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime?

Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415538696
• ISBN13: 9780415538695
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"