Folk & Outsider Art, Art Subjects - General & Miscellaneous
Crimes Of Style
Jeff Ferrell, Eugene Stewart-Huidobro
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Overview
Jeff Ferrell draws on his own extensive field research to thoroughly examine the practices of graffiti artists. Focusing on the city of Denver, he takes a close look at the war against graffiti and the interplay between cultural innovation and institutionalized intolerance, arguing that coordinated corporate and political campaigns to suppress and criminalize graffiti writers further disenfranchises the young, the poor, and people of color.Synopsis
The groundbreaking study of graffiti artists and their complex system of stylistic meanings, status games, and specialized vocabulary.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Crimes of Style is excellent sociology, fascinating ethnography, and compelling anarchist criminology."--The Criminologist"The reader is treated to a rich description of graffiti culture embedded in an analysis of social control. . . . [Ferrell] expands criminological theory by integrating conventional concepts with more recent developments in anarchist criminology and postmodernism."--Justice Quarterly
Book Details
Published
September 1, 1996
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781555532765