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, 2020 A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a bunch of tourists. There are plenty of exhibitions, but none can compete with the spectacle my body seems to present.
Yaghoobifarah, Hengameh
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From Pilgrim to Tourist and Back Again: Travel as a Sacred Journey [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores the gray area that exists between the semantic differentiation of the terms pilgrim and tourist. Understanding all travel in light of Graburn's "sacred journey", the importance of this semantic difference is diminished. I use original
Matthew Hughes
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 215-234, February 2026.ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
A. M. Hilder Jarvis
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'Just as good a place to publish': Banksy, Graffiti and the Textualisation of the Wall [PDF]
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2010 The article focuses on the work of the (in)famous graffiti artist Banksy, as a way into discussing the wider artistic and textual aspects of graffiti-art.
Anindya Raychaudhuri
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Pictures that denounce? In the Jungle of Calais, Banksy and the Hearts of Cardboard
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2019 In this paper, I would like to question the political power of images in the urban space. To do this, I rely on the confrontation of two types of images displayed in Calais, a city now associated with the "migrant problem".
Damien Darcis
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Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 2022 En la periferia del debate intelectual acerca de la redefinición del arte visual, el street art o arte urbano va adquiriendo progresivamente un status más nítido como manifestación artística con valor intrínseco capitaneado por un conjunto de artistas ...
Carlos L. Marcos-Alba +1 more
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La ciudad como texto y pretexto. De la estética metropolitana a las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas [PDF]
, 2013 El título sugiere ya una lectura del devenir de la ciudad en el último siglo. La irrupción de la metrópolis, en condiciones de una lograda aunque no siempre efectiva mayoría de edad, a principios del siglo XX, y la necesidad o querencia moderna por ...
Birlanga Trigueros, José Gaspar
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Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 23, Issue 10, December 2025.Collaborations between biodiversity conservation and the arts can lead to synergies and fresh approaches to intractable problems. These collaborations can yield diverse mutual benefits, such as offering reciprocal sources of inspiration, information, and learning; providing one another with new tools and resources for synthesis and innovation; securing
Ivan Jarić +16 more
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Speak Softly but Carry a Big Can of Paint - Banksy, Wall and Piece: Street Art as Radical Political Activism [PDF]
, 2011 The English street artist Banksy best describes the power of street art as radical activism through his assertion in his 2003 collection, Banging Yallr Head Against a Brick Wall, that [ It] is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing ...
Booth, Rosemary Reedy
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Relationships of Ownership: Art and Theft in Bob Dylan’s 1960s Trilogy
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2012 Bob Dylan’s corpus is one continually engaged with appropriation and pilfering. This paper will look, predominantly, at three songs from his 1960s’ trilogy – ‘She Dylan problematizes the interrelationship between art, theft, and ownership.
Michael Rodgers
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