Graffiti – Friederike Häuser

In the last decades there have been many publications on the subject of graffiti, but the majority of these publications do not claim to be scientific, but rather aesthetic. Editor Friederike Häuser tries to change this in her anthology “Graffiti – Interdisziplinäre und kontemporäre Perspektiven.” (Interdisciplinary and Contemporary Perspectives.). On 255 pages, the 14 international authors like Larissa Kikol, Jacob Kimvall or Robert Kaltenhäuser take a closer look at a wide variety of topics in graffiti.

For example, Lene ter Haar, who asks the question: Graffiti in art collections, does that have to be?, Ulrich Blanché, shows how early hip-hop culture in European countries mixed with punk culture and Friederike Häusers essay focuses on commissioned graffiti and how this is also used as a tool in the fight against graffiti.

In the book “Graffiti – Interdisziplinäre und kontemporäre Perspektiven.” are many exciting approaches that enable the reader to look deeper and more complex into the title topic. Many texts are also illustrated with photos.

• Jeffrey Ian Ross – Foreword: On the importance of edited books to the scholarly study of graffiti and street art (EN)
• Friederike Häuse – Einleitung: die unterschiedlichen Blicke auf Graffiti (DE)
• Oliver Bartelds – Is this likable? Über den Einfluss Sozialer Medien auf die Writing-Kultur (DE)
• Ulrich Blanché – About the origins of European Style Writing Graffiti in Punk Stencils (EN)
• Katharina Galladé – American Graffiti – Entstehung, Einordnung, Aneignung (DE)
• Katja Glaser – Graffiti cannot be deciphered with the eyes, it can only be read with the soles of the feet (EN)
• Lene ter Haar – Temporäres für die Ewigkeit. Graffiti in öffentlichen Kunstmuseen und Sammlungen (DE)
• Friederike Häuser – Graffiti, Gouvernementalität und Grenzen. Auftragsgraffiti als Strategie zur Graffitiprävention? (DE)
• Robert Kaltenhäuser – Trolling is Solidarity. Urban Art at the Identitarian Intersection (EN)
• Larissa Kikol  – Von der Kunst im Verbotenen. Oder: Graffiti als Teil der Kunstwelt (DE)
• Jacob Kimvall – Hip-Hop as a Conceptual Assemblage (EN)
• Florian Moritz – Rituelle Kommunikation im Trainwriting: Fluchtgeschichten zwischen Kollektivität und Individualismus (DE)
• Pamela Pachl – Korrelationen der Skateboardszene zu HipHop, Graffiti und Streetart oder die Frage, was ein Skatesticker mit HipHop, Graffiti und Streetart zu tun haben könnte? (DE)
• Pietro Rivasi – Spontaneous urban art and institutions: challenging a 50 years old relationship – An italian based case study (EN)
• Victoria del Valle – “Street poetry” – Die poetische Dimension der urbanen Schriftkunst (DE)

255 pages, 15,1 cm x 23 cm, softcover
Special: downloadable E-Book code inside
Language: German or English (Some authors wrote in English and some in German)
Release date: 2021
Publisher: Beltz Juventa