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Visual Inquiry 9.1&2 is now available!
Thursday, October 08, 2020

Visual Inquiry 9.1&2 is now available!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Visual Inquiry 9.1&2 is now available! 

 

Special Issue: ‘Interrogating the Co-Optation and Commodification of Modern Graffiti and Street Art’

 

For more information about the special issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/visual-inquiry

 

Aims & Scope

 

Visual Inquiry is a readable and approachable academic journal dedicated to discussing issues of art education in a challenging and visually engaging way. It is a forum for engaging the rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art that takes place in the classroom, studio, and beyond. 

 

Issue 9.1&2

 

Editorial

 

Moving beyond Banksy and Fairey: Interrogating the co-optation and commodification of modern graffiti and street art

JEFFREY IAN ROSS, JOHN F. LENNON AND RONALD KRAMER

 

Articles

 

Street appropriation: Subversion as commodity in Dublin

RUTH ALEXANDRA MORAN

 

The monetization of the street art world and the fossilization of urban public space

PETER BENGTSEN

 

Bohemia growth machine: Street art as an urban development tool in Florida

ELIZABETH STROM AND MARGARETHE KUSENBACH

 

Keeping it clean: Graffiti and the commodifica-tion of a moral panic

ERIK HANNERZ AND JACOB KIMVALL

 

Book Reviews

 

The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti, Susan A. Phillips (2019)

JOHN F. LENNON

 

Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture, Stefano Bloch (2020)

JEFFREY IAN ROSS