Street Art
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2. WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Some of the earliest expressions of street art were certainly the graffiti which started showing up
on the sides of train cars and walls. This was the work of gangs in the 1920s and 1930s New
York. The impact of this subversive culture was extraordinarily felt in the 1970s and 1980s. This
cultural movement was recorded in the book The History of American Graffiti, by Roger
Gastman and Caleb Neelon. These decades were a significant turning point in the history of
street art – it was a time when young people, by responding to their socio-political environment,
started creating a movement, taking the ‘battle for meaning’ into their own hands.
Soon, this subcultural phenomenon gained the attention and respect in the ‘grown-up’ world.
From the fingers and cans of teenagers, it had taken a form of true artistic expression. Although
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