‘This is not a Banksy!’: street art as aesthetic protest
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Hansen, S. and Danny, F. 2015. ‘This is not a Banksy!’: street art as aesthetic protest. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 29 (6), pp. 898-912. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2015.1073685
Type | Article |
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Title | ‘This is not a Banksy!’: street art as aesthetic protest |
Authors | Hansen, S. and Danny, F. |
Abstract | This paper examines the dialogue and transformation of public space that occurred after Banksy’s Slave Labour was removed without notice from a wall in North London, transported to Miami and listed for auction. Despite the high-profile media coverage of the ‘theft’ of Banksy’s piece, the explosion of new works provoked by its extraction was for the most part simply erased as they appeared. We argue that the excision of Slave Labour provided a ‘gap in the sensible’ and the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a lively local intertextual visual dialogue, which transformed this otherwise apparently unremarkable London side street into an arena for aesthetic protest and critical social commentary. |
Research Group | Forensic Psychology Research group |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies |
ISSN | 1030-4312 |
Electronic | 1469-3666 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 29 Sep 2015 |
02 Nov 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 15 Oct 2015 |
Accepted | 15 Jul 2015 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2015.1073685 |
Language | English |
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