Abstract
This paper explores the development and expression of street art from the end of the twentieth century to the present day. I examine the street art’s use and definition of public space and how it challenges the prevailing paradigm on property and ownership. I explore the way that street art uses the language of advertising to reach the largest amount of people, while speaking out against all that consumerism stands for. I discuss how in braking down the boundaries between high art and low, and using images from every source imaginable, street speaks to the post-modern projects desire to see beyond disciplines and deny all hierarchies. I delve into the work of fames street artist Swoon and her art collective Toyshop and see how street art is seeking to facilitate a change in consciousness from a fixed and static way of seeing reality, to an organic and flowing mode of being.
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Suzuki, Christopher M.
(2018)
"Street Art as an Expression of Post-Modern Consciousness,"
Journal of Conscious Evolution: Iss. 10, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cejournal/vol10/iss10/3
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