Categoria: Academics

(More boring academic stuff to be uploaded soon)

L’art satirique de Blu entre déartisation et auto-iconoclastie

🇫🇷 In this article I focus on the work and the practice of Blu, an Italian artist whose artistic process consists of the production of monumental mural paintings that are marked by humanist, environmentalist and anti-globalization subjects that are close to libertarian culture. Because of the…

Le street art est-il fini?

🇫🇷 « FAME Festival est mort. Ce que vous êtes, nous l’étions. Ce que nous sommes, vous le serez.Mais toujours pis et tard. » Nous pouvons lire ces mots sur l’ancien site du FAME Festival, qui a eu lieu à Grottaglie,une petite ville dans l’Italie du…

The Sex of Graffiti. Urban art, women and “gender perception”

🇬🇧 In this paper I explore the intersection between urban creativity and gender studies, through a composite methodology and with a double purpose: to examine the role and the recognition of women in the graffiti and street art milieu; and to test the existence, the extent,…