Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

532 Pages·2016·12.03 MB·English

by  Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.)

Routledge Handbook of
Graffiti and Street Art
Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the
field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-five original contributions are organized around four parts:
• History, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art.
• Theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art.
• Regional/municipal variations/differences of graffiti and street art.
• Effects of graffiti and street art.
Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their
expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal Justice,
Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communica -
tion.
The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and
art gallery and museum curators.
This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice,
law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as
members of the news media. The Handbook includes 92 images, a glossary, and a chronology,
and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.
Jeffre y Ian Ross is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and
a Research Fellow of the Schaefer Center for Public Policy, and the Center for International
and Comparative Law, both at the University of Baltimore.
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Routledge Handbook of
Graffiti and Street Art
Edited by
Jeffrey Ian Ross
FOREWORD BY JEFF FERRELL
First published 2016
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2016 Jeffrey Ian Ross
The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial material,
and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance
with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying
and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,
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Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or
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explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Routledge handbook of graffiti and street art/Edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Graffiti. 2. Street art. I. Ross, Jeffrey Ian, editor.
GT3912.R68 2015
751.7’3–dc23
2015017717
ISBN: 978-1-138-79293-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76166-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo and Stone Sans
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK
(Photo: Jeffrey Ian Ross, June 3, 2013)
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To Francis T. Cullen, who has been an informal
mentor and supporter during my career
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Contents
List of figures xiii
List of tables xvi
List of contributors xvii
Editor’s foreword: Jeffrey Ian Ross xxvii
Foreword: graffiti, street art and the politics of complexity: Jeff Ferrell xxx
Acknowledgements xxxix
Introduction: sorting it all out 1
Jeffrey Ian Ross
PART I
History, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art 11
1 Ancient graffiti 17
J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor
2 Trains, railroad workers and illegal riders: the subcultural world
of hobo graffiti 27
John F. Lennon
3 The history of freight train graffiti in North America 36
Robert Donald Weide
4 Deconstructing gang graffiti 48
Susan A. Phillips
5 Prison inmate graffiti 61
Jacqueline Z. Wilson
6 Ways of being seen: gender and the writing on the wall 78
Jessica N. Pabón
7 Research and theory on latrinalia 92
Adam Trahan
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