Article

Name: Street art as a phenomenon of contemporary culture: the problem of its genesis and semiotic features of message in street art

Authors: I.S. Kudryashov

Novosibirsk State University of Medicine

Abstract: Description of such a phenomenon of contemporary culture as a street art raise some problems before the researcher. Mostly this is a problem which grows up from an insufficient explanation of specific features of street art brought about with the methods of esthetics, sociology, cultural studies. In the focus of this article there is criticism of such approaches which are based on the examples of genesis of street art and semiotic features of its message. In this article we rebut some entrenched features of street art messages like the «anonymity», «protest» and «reliance on unprepared viewer». A critical view of this approach allow us to sug-gest a description of street art from the standpoint of modern problematic of corpo-reality. Also in this article we make an attempt to use in our analysis of street art as a new trend in Art such concepts as «alienation» and «the Proletarian Art».

Keywords: Street art, culture, semiotics, message

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