Artful Crime: Metroplex Transit Graffiti
- DOI
- 10.2991/hss-26.2016.138How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Graffiti, Transportation, Transit, Vandalism, Art.
- Abstract
Modern graffiti scourge within transit infrastructure arose in the 1970s and perpetuates today in self-aggrandizement vandalism. Simultaneously since inception, societal acceptance of graffiti as cultural and artistic value has continued parallel with perception as a security threat, and obvious illegality. Public records from the past three years compare Dallas, Texas metropolitan area graffiti styles, artists’ motivations, and law enforcement reaction to global genres and world contemporary viewpoints, including this art/crime dichotomy. Color images, together with verbal, written tags and indelible marker prose exhibit these styles. An individual, discursive and communicative artist profile emerges. Gang symbols intersperse among predominately personal expressions spewing polylingual and non-conforming language.
- Copyright
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Robin Gay Wakeland PY - 2016/01 DA - 2016/01 TI - Artful Crime: Metroplex Transit Graffiti BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 834 EP - 852 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.138 DO - 10.2991/hss-26.2016.138 ID - Wakeland2016/01 ER -