„They call it illegal, we call it free”– Street Art Images set Free Cover Image

„They call it illegal, we call it free”– Street Art Images set Free
„They call it illegal, we call it free”– Street Art Images set Free

Author(s): Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: graffiti; street art; contemporary art; urban culture

Summary/Abstract: Street art is a new form of art that fully exploits all of the forms of freedom available within the city culture. It liberates itself from place, time, and medium, but also from all institutions. This does not mean that it does not interact with the art world. It does, but it still as “a guest, not a permanent resident”. Thus, street artists want to free themselves from all the requirements of art and its evaluation by their post-dichotomous stand. Time will tell if this attitude can save street art from the total absorption into the domain of mass culture in the mainstream of art.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 265-279
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English