Le « street art » est-il fini ?

Abstract

The polymorphic phenomenon commonly known as « street art » is an evident outcome of the pluralist and post-historical era of art. During the last ten years, it evolved in a way so we can no longer consider it as an isolated practice, characterized by independency and illegality ; exclusively linked with a specific environment (the street), a geographic area or a specific media (the spraycan and the marker), nor it can be seen anymore as the expression of a pop aesthetics and culture. « Street art » has become a global practice, implying a wide range of techniques, media, styles and contents. Above all, it has gained several forms of recognition, coming from art institutions and market, city councils and the academic world. The present paper aims to propose a Danto-Hegelian interpretation of « street art », according to which the phenomenon might have exhausted (if not « betrayed ») its true aesthetic and ideological premises, thus going through a hardly definable metamorphosis.

Keywords

• graffiti
• street art
• Blu
• fin de l’art
• Arthur Danto