This essay concerns graffiti, and in particular graffiti removal regarded as iconoclasm. Graffiti is described as a visual symbol laden with both negative and positive values, and sometimes as a meaningful expression in the urban public space. One problem with graffiti as a field of study is the diversity of both the meaning of the term as well as the diversity of the phenomenon itself. Therefore I have defined the term graffiti as follows: words and images painted on public walls by a person usually in an unauthorised manner. Specific examples of graffiti and related phenomena are presented. Within the Swedish anti-graffiti discourse the pejorative term klotter (scribbling) is used to describe what I above define as graffiti. A short analysis of this discourse is followed by case studies of specific examples of graffiti removal that can be regarded as iconoclasm.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-439 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Kimvall, Jacob |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, Huddinge : Institutionen för medier, konst och filosofi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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