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Gauthier, Louise.

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Writing on the run: The history and transformation of street graffiti in Montreal in the 1990s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing on the run: The history and transformation of street graffiti in Montreal in the 1990s./
Author:	Gauthier, Louise.
Description:	422 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-08, Section: A, page: 3233.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-08A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9900425
ISBN:	0591973847

Writing on the run: The history and transformation of street graffiti in Montreal in the 1990s.
Gauthier, Louise.

Writing on the run: The history and transformation of street graffiti in Montreal in the 1990s. - 422 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-08, Section: A, page: 3233.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New School for Social Research, 1998.

This is a visual ethnography of street graffiti in Montreal in which I chronicle its transformation from an anonymous and politically-motivated practice (political graffiti) to a primarily name-based one (signature graffiti). While I provide an analysis of the decline of political graffiti in the early 1990s, I examine primarily the emergence of the signature graffiti writing community--the social and aesthetic world of its writers, its tensions, contradictions, and responses to it.

ISBN: 0591973847Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017425
Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Writing on the run: The history and transformation of street graffiti in Montreal in the 1990s.
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520 $a First, I show that signature graffiti embodies what I call the "ghetto aesthetic", a kind of cryptic visual language which originated in American inner-cities in the late 1960s. Second, I demonstrate that though it may look similar to the graffiti produced at that time, signature graffiti in the 1990s is substantially different: no longer only the language of the disenfranchised, it has expanded from an inner-city practice to an inter-city and inter-national one adopted and accepted by young people--usually young men--from various social and economic backgrounds. Third, I argue that the fear of invasion of signature graffiti in Montreal is based less on the idea that this form of graffiti demonstrates the "ghettoization" of youth in the metropolitan area than on the belief that its proliferation is leading toward the collapse of the traditional quebecois ideals of nationhood.
520 $a Through the implementation of symbolic arenas of resistance, I suggest that signature graffiti writers are challenging the social and political organization from which they emerged; that the visual tactics to which signature graffiti writers ascribe fracture the dominant ideological framework of cultural identity and distinctiveness in Quebec; and that graffiti writers have found a new sense of personal and cultural identity, one that goes well beyond traditional conceptions of the self and of collective group formation in Quebec. I conclude that signature graffiti, both in Quebec and elsewhere, are visual markers of social change.
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