Bibliography

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WORKS ABOUT GRAFFITI

• Austin, Joe. Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City. NY: Columbia UP, 2001.
• Bowen, Tracey E. “Graffiti Art: A Contemporary Study of Toronto Artists.” Studies in Art Education. 41.1 (1999): 22-39.
• Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti Woman. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006.
• —. Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents. Ed. Tristan Manco. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
• History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art: Volume I, 1983-1988. Eds. Robert Reiling & Robert Alva. Los Angeles THLAGA, ????
• History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art: Volume II, 1989-1994. Eds. Robert Reiling & Robert Alva. Los Angeles THLAGA, 2008.
• Jenkins, Sacha & David Villorente. Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers. Prestel USA, 2008.
• Keenan, Ed. “Graffiti’s Grey Area.” Spacing (Winter 2006): 36-7.
• Miller, Ivor L. Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City. Foreword by Robert Farris Thompson. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2002.
• Murray, James and Karla. Broken Windows. Graffiti NYC. NY: Gingko Press, 2002.
• —. Burning New York. NY: Gingko Press, 2006.
• —. Miami Graffiti. Prestel, 2009.
• —. Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York. Gingko Press, 2009.
• Naar, Jon. The Birth of Graffiti. Prestel, 2008.
• Oostrom, Devon. “Vandalism vs. Art.” Spacing (Winter 2006): 34-5.
• Rahn, Janice. Painting without Permission: Hip-Hop Graffiti Sub-Culture. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
• Riout, Denys. Le livre du graffiti. Photographies de Dominique Gurdjian, Jean-Pierre Leroux, Denys Riouts. Paris : Éditions Alternatives, 1985.
• Sandals, Leah. “Conversation Pieces: The Seven Habits of Politically Effective Public Art.” Spacing (Winter 2006): 40-1.
• Schlee, Siggi. Fadings: Graffiti to Design, Illustration and More. 24 Profiles. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005.
• Snyder, Gregory J. Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground. NY: NYU Press, 2009.
• Stewart, Jack. Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s. New York: Abrams, 2009.
• —. Subway Graffiti: An Aesthetic Study of Graffiti on the Subway System of New York City, 1970-1978. Dissertation. New York: New York University, 1989.
• Stewart, Susan. “Ceci tuera cela: Graffiti as Crime and Art.” Crimes of Writing. Duke UP, 1994.
• Sutherland, Peter. Autograf: New York City’s Graffiti Writers. NY: powerHouse Books, 2004.
• Walde, Claudia. Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2007.

SATIRE

• Highet, Gilbert. The Anatomy of Satire. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1962.
• Test, George Austin. “Playing the Game of Satire.” Satire: Spirit and Art. Tampa: U of South Florida P, 1991. 126-49. (see esp. 138-142)

KITSCH

• Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Duke UP, 1987.
• Greenberg, Clement. “Avant-Garde and Kitsch.” Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1986.