Street Art of Resistance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Awad, Sarah H. (Editor), Wagoner, Brady (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
• Subjects: Psychology.; Arts.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Emotions.; Psychosocial Studies.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Emotion.; Personality and Social Psychology.

‘Street Art of Resistance’ … is a definitive collection of essays; it has case studies from Belfast to Egypt, art forms ranging from murals to tattoos, and insights that are both theoretical and practical. Street art is a way for suppressed voices to gain representation in the public sphere. These v...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Sarah H. Awad and Brady Wagoner.- Part I. Theories of Aesthetics, Resistance and Social Change
• Chapter 2. Art and social change: The role of creativity and wonder; Vlad Glaveanu
• Chapter 3. Subjectivity, Aesthetics, and Resistance; Thomas Teo.- Chapter 4. Resisting Forms; Robert Innis.-  Part II: Image Circulation and Politics.- Chapter 5. Indigenous Graffiti as Postcolonial Resistance; Matthew Ryan Smith.- Chapter 6. The Resistance Passed Through Here: Arabic Graffiti of Resistance, Before and After the Arab Uprisings; Rana Jarbou
• Chapter 7. The Arabic Language as Creative Resistance; Basma Hamdy
• Part III. Urban Space: The City as an Extension of Self.- Chapter 8. Speaking Walls: Contentious Memories in Belfast’s Murals; Daniela Vicherat Mattar
• Chapter 9. Inventive Re-existence: Notes about graffiti in Brazil and tension produced in the cities; Andrea Zanella
• Chapter 10. Embodied walls and extended skins: Exploring the distribution of mental health through tataus and graffiti; Jamie Mcphie
•  Chapter 11. Indigenous Graffiti and Street Art as Resistance; Matthew Ryan Smith.- Part IV: Artists Social Movements.- Chapter 12. Representations of Resistance: Ironic Iconography in a Southern Mexican Social Movement; Jayne Howell.- Chapter 13. The democratic potential of art – Danish graffiti and street art as a rebellious act; Cecilia Schøler Nielsen.- Chapter 14. The Aesthetics of Social Movements in Spain; Oscar Garcia Agustin.- Chapter 15. Sheherazade Says No: Artful Resistance in Contemporary Egyptian Political Cartoon.- Mohamed M. Helmy & Sabine Frerichs.