Graffiti: an american phenomenon in the greek art scene: Athens Thessaloniki 1985-2005
Abstract
Graffiti has become a part of the Greek landscape since the mid 1980s. However, until now there has been no dissertation on this subject from the perspective of the art history. In this dissertation I have sketched out a brief history of the graffiti art movement emerging in the 1970s and 1980s in New York· the reception of works, i.e. the critical discourse on graffiti while entering the galleried world in America and Europe· the stylistic evolution and disparity of the lettering and the representational elements· the writers’ favoured themes, aerosol techniques and criteria for the evaluation of quality· the way the pieces intervene in the urban public space and the subsequent questions they raise about the democratic aesthetics of shared public space· the scope of the formation of crews and their pedagogical role among writers· the values informing the writing community such as the notions of getting up and fame. After having made the reader familiar with the visual idiom of this ki ...
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