The Beautiful Walls: Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris

by Yust, Patrick A. Polk, Fowler Museum at UCLA Staff

Graffiti is a forceful way of inscribing presence or "being" in the world as well as a means of creating affective links to the potency of natural wonders, religious shrines, and ancient ruins as well as the contemporary cityscape. The photographic elevations presented in this volume represent a graffiti-punctuated pilgrim's progress built around the aesthetics of defacement. Graffiti- and mural-covered walls, buildings, automobiles, and railcars...

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977834441
• ISBN13: 9780977834440
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 13.0" x 7.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher