Words of the Prophets: Graffiti as Political Protest in Greece, Italy, Poland, and the United States

Author:   Jonathan Gross
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
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Pages:   366
Publication Date:   28 May 2024
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Author:   Jonathan Gross
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888902301


Pages:   366
Publication Date:   28 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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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 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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Jonathan Gross is a Professor at DePaul University. He has published monographs on Lord Byron, Anne Damer, and edited the letters of Lady Melbourne and Thomas Jefferson. His editions of the Sylph, Belmour, and Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment highlight the achievements of women writers.

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