Words of the Prophets

Words of the Prophets

Graffiti as Political Protest in Greece, Italy, Poland, and the United States

Gross, Jonathan

Haymarket Books

05/2024

366

Mole

9798888902301

15 a 20 dias

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Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Figures


Introduction: from "Kilroy Was Here" to Krik Kong


Part 1

Four Murals and Their Environs

1?Thessaloniki: a Born-Again Faith in Graffiti

?1?Graffiti in Thessaloniki, 2014


?2?Athens, Exarchia, and Missolonghi

?2.1?The Street Is My Gallery




?3?Exarchia

?3.1?St. Paul Six Years Later: Graffiti Has Now Become Inartistic Sloganeering


?3.2?Messolonghi




?4?Conclusion




2?Naples, Graffiti in Naples, or Rubbish Is Gold

?1?Two Visits to Naples


?2?"Rubbish Is Gold": Three Films on Neapolitan Garbage

?2.1?"We Want to Breathe! It's Our Right!"




?3?Parking among the Corpses of Syracuse


?4?Approaching Florence

?4.1?Florence: Masterworks outside the Uffizi


?4.2?On Bullshit in Florence




?5?Venice


?6?Between Venice and Milan, 2020


?7?Approaching Milan


?8?Roma Termini




3?Gdansk: Remembering Solidarity

?1?An Unguided Tour of Gdansk


?2?Krik Kong


?3?Solidarity Museum


?4?Courtesy Solidarity Museum, Gdansk


?5?Fonts of Fascism, or the Heaviness of the Solidarity Museum

?5.1?Westerplatte Tour


?5.2?A Closer Look at Krik Kong




?6?My Interview with Krik Kong

?6.1?Art School vs. Street Knowledge




?7?Conclusion: from Andrez Wajda's Man of Iron to Warsaw




4?Welcome to Chicago

?1?Welcome to Chicago/ We Can Change the World (1971)

?1.1?Welcome to Chicagoland: Redux


?1.2?Is Rap a Black Art Form




?2?Conclusion: Chicago, Philadelphia, New York

?2.1?Philadelphia


?2.2?New York


?2.3?One Last Mural





Part 2

Graffiti as Narrative Art

5?Byron, Blake, and the George Floyd Protests: the Evolution of Fonts

?1?Lord Byron: Graffiti Artist

?1.1?Byron's Name at Ferrara


?1.2?Graffiti: Local and Global Practices




?2?Graffiti Practices in England


?3?Visions of Belshazzar: Ortygia, Syracuse, and the Book of Daniel


?4?Graffiti in the South Bronx


?5?Who's John Lennon?


?6?Lady Pink and Lord Byron: the Museum of Graffiti in Miami Beach




6?Orozco, Pomona College's Prometheus

?1?Blake, Orozco, and the Graffiti/Mural Tradition


?2?The Parable of the Ten Virgins


?3?Lady Pink and the Art of Pointing


?4?George Floyd: "Corporate Media, Graffiti, and the Visualizations of the George Floyd Protests" in 2020


?5?Calligraphy: from Istanbul to the South Bronx


?6?Hagia Sophia


?7?Words of the Prophets on Walls and Curtains


?8?Cultural Riches vs. Benign Neglect




7?Conclusion




Appendix: In the Words of Contemporary Artists


Notes on Artists and Interviewers


References


Index
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Ser; Jay Pop; political street art; Simoni Fontana; Graffit; Iwona Zaac; Ponchee.193; Mattia Campo Dall'Orto; Beyonc; Krik Kong; street art; media studies