history

The history of graffiti I found through Google scholars was that graffiti is basically looked at mostly as a crime. Author: Ferrell, J. Title: Crimes of style: Urban graffiti and the politics of criminality. Publisher: New York: Garland. (235pp).Year: 1993. He was saying that Graffiti first came to public attention in the late 1960s, mainly in New York City and largely as an outgrowth of political radicalism and of black and Hispanic empowerment and identity. Graffiti was of interest aesthetically for its fusion of multiple styles drawn from mass culture and from more specific ethnic traditions as well as two innovations specific to New York City graffiti writers: the 'tag,' as stylized logo which identified the otherwise anonymous artist and the use of subway cars as canvases. Some more information I found through Google scholars was a paper which Justin Longo wrote which was titled A Full History of Graffiti – 1965-2002. He was from New Century College.

In the paper he stated that graffiti has been a staple of mankind since man first exercised his creative genius. Ever since the first caveman flexed the right half of his brain, some form of graffiti, on some form of a public outlet, has come to be a part of society. Whether it is shapes and hardly identifiable images scrawled on a wall inside of a cave, or a message in the form of public outcry. My history of graffiti is drawing on walls and expressing myself through pictures. I acknowledge a lot of graffiti work because you can think you just look at one picture where there is another picture or a hidden messages I the picture. Tattoos are graffiti to me to. People putting art on there body to express the way they feel. This is my knowledge of the history of graffiti.