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Tagging and Graffiti
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Tagging and Graffiti
A look at the profiles of these "writers," their motivations, methods, social and legal reactions as an art or crime and gangs.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
9 sources |
1993
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"Tagging and GraffitiPublic agencies, law enforcement officers, and business people in the nation's urban areas, struggle to keep up with graffiti damage inflicted by the recent nightly tagging activity of gang members. At times it seems like a race against the impossible; some observers even say that graffiti is a social statement or an art form. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss tagging, its role as art and social statement and other related issues of gang activity.
The graffiti movement began in New York City as an illegal, calligraphic, mobile public art in which gang members spray-painted their "tags" (gang names or nicknames) onto subway trains. The best writers or taggers became heros to their friends, and their unusual visual renderings commanded the..."
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"Tagging and Graffiti" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Tagging-and-Graffiti/20165>
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