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    Painting without Permission: Hip-Hop Graffiti Subculture » Read Now

    by Janice Rahn. 226 pgs.

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    More than ever education students are required to study the social context of youth culture in order to understand and design meaningful, motivational curiculum. There is a need to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to address the critical issues which confront the education of youth...
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    Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City (Chap. 5 "Graffiti, Joyriding, Vandalism") » Read Now

    by Bill Sanders. 228 pgs.

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    Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime. A wide range of topics are explored, such as young people's...
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    Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law (Chap. 3 "Written on the Skin of the City") » Read Now

    by Alison Young. 189 pgs.

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    Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal...
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    Cultivating Minds: Identity as Meaning-Making Practice (Chap. 8 "The Writing on the Wall") » Read Now

    by Urs Fuhrer. 166 pgs.

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    Cultivating Minds is a ground-breaking unification of the ideas of Simmel and contemporary perspectives in cultural psychology. The theoretical framework proposed is based on an integration of core philosophical, sociological, and psychological ideas from the intellectual traditions of pragmatism...
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    Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City » Read Now

    by Joe Austin. 356 pgs.

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    In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth...
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    European Landscapes of Rock-Art » Read Now

    by Christopher Chippindale, George Nash. 218 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and...
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    Political Protest and Street Art: Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries » Read Now

    by Lyman G. Chaffee. 182 pgs.

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    This first cross-national book-length study of street art as political protest and communication focuses on art forms traditionally used by collectives and state interests in the Hispanic world--posters, wallpaintings, graffiti, murals, shirts, buttons, and stickers, for example. Professor Chaffee...

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