Dual Place of Street Art – the City vs the Internet

• Authors: Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Street art (or more broadly urban art), as the name suggests, has its own specific place, which is the street. However one would be mistaken to think that this type of art can only be seen there. Most street art lovers know the works of their favourite artists primarily through the Internet, not only because this kind of art is ephemeral or not easily accessible (for example, due to its dangerous or exotic locations), but because it is perhaps the best documented art that has been created in the world. For artists and lovers of street art, the Internet has become a common space to share photos. More often than not, the Internet also becomes the only place where artistic ideas exist. Paradoxically, such art, which was supposed to be the nearest to the viewer in the physical sense, has become the nearest in the virtual sense. One can, however, hope that neither consumers of art. nor artists will have to give up their direct experience of art that builds our polysensory sensitivity.

Keywords

EN

Street art.; graffiti; urban art.; art in public space; art in Internet

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 99-109

Dates

published

2017-12-30

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek

• University of Łódź, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Ethics, ul. Lindleya 3/5, 90-131 Łódź

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6107.30.07