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/).

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