Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Graffiti: Terminology, Context, Semiotics, Documentation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Graffiti: Terminology, Context, Semiotics, Documentation 1
4. Africa
5. Writing Wherever Possible and Meaningful: Graffiti Culture in Ancient Egypt. Context, Terminology, Documentation 47
6. ‘Spray It Loud’: Hip Hop Graffiti Culture and Politics in Dar es Salaam, 2003–2018 77
7. America
8. Incised Images among the Palaces and Temples: The Content and Meaning of Pre-Columbian Maya Graffiti 109
9. Graffiti and the Media: Between Politics, Art and Vandalism 143
10. Central and East Asia
11. Old Uyghur Graffiti Inscriptions from Central Asia 173
12. Chinese Graffiti in Dunhuang? 215
13. Transcribed Flows and Arrhythmias: ‘Graffiti’ in Relation to Epigraphic and Artistic Trajectories in Today’s Mainland China 233
14. Intermezzo
15. The Spray Can as an Attitude to Life between Illegal Action and Commercial Art: A Conversation on the Emergence of a Modern Graffiti Form with the Artist Mirko Reisser alias DAIM 267
16. South and West Asia
17. Graffiti in Ancient India: Towards the Definition of a Genre of Indian Epigraphy 287
18. Graffiti in Middle Iranian: Some Preliminary Notes 327
19. Voices in the Wilderness: Some Unexpected Uses of Graffiti 355
20. Medieval and Early Modern Graffiti in Eastern Mediterranean: A New Methodological Approach 383
21. Europe
22. Documenting Ancient Graffiti: Text, Image, Support and Access 425
23. Curating Graffiti: The Exhibition Wände│Walls in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 467
24. Contributors 487
25. Index 491