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Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between street art and the law? In A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law, Andrea Baldini argues that street art has a constitutive relationship with the law. A crucial aspect of the identity of this urban art kind depends on its capacity to turn upside down dominant uses of public spaces. Street artists subvert those laws and social norms that regulate the city. Baldini shows that street art has not only transformed public spaces and their functions into artistic material, but has also turned its rebellious attitude toward the law into a creative resource. He aims at elucidating and arguing for this claim, while drawing important implications at the level of street art’s metaphysics, value, and relationship with rights of intellectual property, in particular copyright and moral rights. At the other end of the spectrum of contractual art, street art is outlaw art.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IX List of Illustrations X A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law  Andrea Baldini  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction: I Fought the Law, and the Law Swanned  Part 1. Walls, Laws, and Vandals: Is Street Art Essentially Illegal?  Part 2. (Not) Above the Law: Art or Vandalism?  Part 3. Creativity, Profit, and Commercial Exploitation: Should Property Rights Extend to Street Art?  Conclusion: an Outlaw Art  References

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Book SynopsisWords of the Prophets treats graffiti as a form of political prophecy. Whether we consider austerity in Thessaloniki, Camorra infiltration in Naples, the fall of Communism in Gdansk, or the rise of gang warfare in Chicago, graffiti is a form of democratic self-expression that dates back to Periclean Athens and the Book of Daniel. Words of the Prophets offers close readings of 400 original photographs taken between 2014 and 2021 in Philadelphia, Venice, Milan, Florence, Syracuse, and Warsaw, alongside literary works by Pawel Huelle, films by Andrezj Wajda, Antonio Capua, and music videos by Natasha Bedingfield and Beyoncé. A third of the book is dedicated to interviews with Krik Kong, Iwona Zajac, Ponchee.193, Jay Pop, Ser, Simoni Fontana, and Mattia Campo Dall’Orto.Table of ContentsPreface 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 Gdańsk: Remembering Solidarity  1 An Unguided Tour of Gdańsk  2 Krik Kong  3 Solidarity Museum  4 Courtesy Solidarity Museum, Gdańsk  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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