Monograph Atrio 2 - The Agony of Urban Art

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.monog.2

Abstract: The public space located art pieces review based on examples in which these artworks no more are perceived as a marginal manifestation. The scene is analyzed from so many different points of view, that sometimes, the urban art tag becomes unrecognizable as it is linked to the institutional scene. It refers to action and context, site specific minority art creativity, where the knowledge of the artists' trajectory, their research and results is essential. It is an urban typology that, without evolving, has led to innumerable versions of itself and generates arduous terminological debates. The creations shift between the purely decorative and the contextual. They move from the figurative to the conceptual. This forces them to break the official barrier in order to not lose their essence. In these pages we consider some of the causes of the possible artistic manifestation agony, tagged by its appearance on the street by a generation of artists that marked two decades between the 20th and 21st centuries.

Keywords: context art; site specific; urban art; street art; institutional art; actual art.

ISBN: 978-84-09-36627-9

Subject: AB - Arte: aspectos generales and AF - Formas de expresión artística

Editor: Elena García Gayo and Laura Luque Rodrigo

Language: español

Year: 2021

Number of pages: 271