By Peter Gutierrez on October 16, 2008 12:13 PM
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...via A Book Review, An Interview, and the Usual Ramblings
Tell the truth: is graffiti what comes to mind first when you think about new media and new literacies?
For most of us, that's probably not a question worth answering, perhaps one that's barely worth asking in the first place. Beyond marginalized--socially, economically, and academically--graffiti doesn't just suffer from a bad rep, its practitioners actually often see that as a point of pride. Cementing its exclusion from both K-12 and the academy these days is the fact that on the surface there are few media as low-tech and ephemeral, and whose community is so intentionally inaccessible to outsiders.
Enter Cedar Lewisohn's Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution, a much-needed survey of the medium that's not only eye-opening but mind-opening as well.
