{"id":683,"date":"2018-12-21T04:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/?p=683"},"modified":"2018-12-21T04:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:49:23","slug":"medieval-graffiti-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/12\/21\/medieval-graffiti-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

While her primary thesis is to complicate the notion of pre-modern acceptance of graffiti, Van Eck provides a valuable critical examination in her scrutiny of the view \u2013 which originated in the nineteenth century and is exemplified in the writings of Butler e.g. \u2013 of \u201cgraffiti as \u2026 expressions of a lower cultural register which nonetheless preserve precious voices from the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Eck notes that this near-exoticization of the underclass as unthinkingly leaving remnants whose significance must be explained to them is not compatible with the \u201ccertain degree of intentionality\u201d implicit in applying a graffito to a surface not designed to accept writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further, Plesch\u2019s note that such application \u201cconstitutes a symbolic act of appropriation\u201d suggests that failure to acknowledge intentional claims of spatial ownership not only hinders understanding of spatial expression (as well as the socialization of space and objects in the sense of Volioti) but also strips artists of their agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Eck reaches what is, in my mind, the correct conclusion: while all graffiti can be aptly termed as \u201csoul-fossils,\u201d the intentionality of these leaving-behinds varies depending on the spatial context. For example, while scratchings on a bus stop may be unthinking, the pre-modern graffiti in religious spaces reflects \u201cemphatic\u201d intentionality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broadly, this emphasizes the importance of spatial context of a graffito in understanding its significances as well as the overall diversity of spatial expression.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While her primary thesis is to complicate the notion of pre-modern acceptance of graffiti, Van Eck provides a valuable critical examination in her scrutiny of the view \u2013 which originated in the nineteenth century and is exemplified in the writings of Butler e.g. \u2013 of \u201cgraffiti as \u2026 expressions of a lower cultural register which … <\/p>\n

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