Graffiti as a Communication Artifact within Cities: a State of the Art/El grafiti como artefacto comunicador de las ciudades: una revisión de literatura
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https://doi.org/10.15665/re.v15i1.812Keywords:
Grafiti, Arte callejero, Expresión artística, Ciudades comunicativasAbstract
Este artículo se constituye como una revisión descriptiva acerca de la conceptualización y evolución del grafiti en sus diferentes acepciones, ilustrando la evolución y diferentes perspectivas encontradas en publicaciones académicas que permiten develar la importancia como herencia cultural que emana de su propia naturaleza y la representación social y política que manifiesta. Para este fin, se tuvo en cuenta la producción académica comprendida entre los años 2000 y 2016 en torno al grafiti en las bases de datos Jstor, Communication & Mass Media Complete de Ebsco y Google Scholar. El recorrido, permite evidenciar la situación actual del grafiti, haciendo un énfasis en ciudades que han gestado sus orígenes y orientado su evolución. Como principal resultado, se halló la importancia que representa actualmente dentro de un movimiento artístico que comunica y representa la identidad colectiva de las situaciones que atraviesa un contexto determinado, constituyendo a las ciudades como entornos que comunican.
This article is a descriptive revision about the concept and evolution of graffiti, its different intakes and perspectives, illustrating its evolution and various standpoints found in academic publications that allow us to reveal its importance as a cultural inheritance emanated from its own nature and political and social aspects that it represents. The articles were taken from three different data bases: Jstor, Communication & Mass Media Complete from Ebsco and from Google Scholar; the time frame of publication was done from the year 2000 up to the year 2016, which allows evidentiary support for the current situation of graffiti emphasizing on the important cities of its origins and its evolution. As a result, we found the importance of graffiti within an artistic movement that communicates and represents a collective identity of the circumstances within a specific context, constituting cities as communicative environments.
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