TY - JOUR
T1 - Of Materiality and Meaning
T2 - The Illegality Condition in Street Art
AU - Chackal, Tony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The American Society for Aesthetics
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Street art is an art form that entails creating public works incorporating the street physically and in their meaning. That physical property is employed as an artistic resource in street art raises two questions. Are street artworks necessarily illegal? Does being illegal change the nature of production and aesthetic appreciation? First, I argue street artworks must be in the street. On my view, both the physical and sociocultural senses of the street can be constitutive of meaning. Second, I argue that illegality is a prototypical and paradigmatic feature of street art. While illegality alone does not make works better than sanctioned street art, it affects the production process and changes what is available to appreciate.
AB - Street art is an art form that entails creating public works incorporating the street physically and in their meaning. That physical property is employed as an artistic resource in street art raises two questions. Are street artworks necessarily illegal? Does being illegal change the nature of production and aesthetic appreciation? First, I argue street artworks must be in the street. On my view, both the physical and sociocultural senses of the street can be constitutive of meaning. Second, I argue that illegality is a prototypical and paradigmatic feature of street art. While illegality alone does not make works better than sanctioned street art, it affects the production process and changes what is available to appreciate.
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U2 - 10.1111/jaac.12325
DO - 10.1111/jaac.12325
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992397172
SN - 0021-8529
VL - 74
SP - 359
EP - 370
JO - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
JF - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
IS - 4
ER -