The G-Word: Virtuosity and Violation, Negotiating and Transforming Graffiti

by Jacob Kimvall

A Ph.D. thesis by art historian and former graffiti writer Jacob Kimvall
Why does the CIA praise graffiti as a colorful symbol of the optimism and hope of the Western World while officials in many cities describes the same phenomenon as a criminal activity and a rep- resentation of unsafety and social problems?
Graffiti is a word used to denote a complex system of actions and things, which is often described as a singular phenomenon. Graffiti...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9185639680
• ISBN13: 9789185639687
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Dokument Forlag
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"