Conservation of street art, an act of cultural significance or art sabotage?
- Autores: Alia Soliman
- Localización: Conservación de arte contemporáneo: 21ª jornada, febrero 2020, 2020, págs. 153-162
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In recent decades, street art has piqued the interest of audiences and institutions alike as the art form carries increasingly commercial and cultural values. As such conservation efforts have turned to the preservation of street art. After being criminalised for years, under the paradigm of The Broken Windows Theory, street art currently enjoys renewed status and is the target of concerted efforts, some of which aim for the preservation of urban memory and the history of consciousness of cities while others are merely involved for profit.
This paper reflects on different conservation methods and explores how graffiti artists, art collectors, and urban citizens perceive and react to said conservation efforts. Drawing on contemporary works by artists such as Banksy and Blu, this paper ponders the motives and repercussions of different conservation methods in an attempt to answer the question: which is more important, physical conservation or ideological conservation?
