Austin Taking the Train

How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-53388-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Classic Editions

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Austin, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Taking the Trains: The Formation and Structure of "Writing Culture'' in the Early 1970s
3. Writing "Graffiti'' in the Public Sphere: The Construction of Writing as an Urban Problem
4. Repainting the Trains: The New York School of the 1970s
5. The State of the Subways: The Transit Crisis, the Aesthetics of Fear, and the Second "War on Graffiti''
6. Writing Histories
7. Retaking the Trains
8. The Walls and the World: Writing Culture, 1982-1990
Conclusion: A Spot on the Wall
Appendix: Sources from Writers
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Austin, assistant professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, is coeditor of Generations of Youth: Youth and Youth Cultures in the 20th Century.