Category Archives: Urban Art

Research / Teaching Material

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Painting the Town

The new teaching term will shortly be upon us and I am hoping to incorporate some of my research material into my teaching, specifically the teaching of research methods to first and second year undergraduates. In my experience, the majority … Continue reading →

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Non-Places

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Painting the Town

The French anthropologist Marc Augé differentiates between anthropological place, where lived experience is familiar, associative and repetitive and  non-place, a space which can be defined by experiences of alienation and solitude. Non-places are the railway stations and airports, shopping malls … Continue reading →

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Front Row, Rolf Harris and 808 State

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Painting the Town

Mark Lawson interviewed Kid Acne for yesterday’s Radio 4 Front Row programme during which Lawson discovered that Kid Acne had appeared on the Rolf Harris Cartoon Club TV programme when he was twelve years old. There is a wall on … Continue reading →

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Summer reading

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Painting the Town

This is still fairly new territory for me so I have been wanting to gain a much fuller understanding of the world of graffiti writers and urban artists. Two books that I have found both highly accessible and extremely informative … Continue reading →

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