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Art teachers recognize that there are great variations of visual art
concept of "child art" to include activities that are common to the youth of today.
This view could encourage teachers to broaden their curriculums and incorporate new art forms that are more engaging to young people.
both private and public graffiti. Graffiti art will be examined in different contexts
with its educational implications considered for the secondary school art
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Private Graffiti
growing-up experience.
interest them while allowing others to fade into the backstrange behaviors of their adolescents, either behind
today (Meyer, 1994), schooling becomes a boring, frusout clues to what had happened just before. For many
"Latrinalia"
Public Grati
most civilizations throughout history, its creators were
BY KOON-HWEE KAN
JANUARY 2001
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ART EDUCATION
The 1980s were the Golden Age of graffiti art with the
adolescents.
Gang Graffiti
p. 644). They are often simple alphabets written backand intellectual. A huge discrepancy existed between art
crossed out to send coded messages among gang memWitnessing the gradual decline of Minimalism in the pre-
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29. Another young rising star was Keith Haring, who soon
younger generations.
sales.
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French class."
personalized learning of
dark tunnels.
curriculum.
then you know that the guy has a light mood or some-
like what year it is made and who they are affiliated with."
183 was featured in The New York Times, on July 21, 1971,
stuff like big S, C, (representing Spanish Cobra, his gang's
name). Like in black and white, very style like, like some
of the older kids would do... so, that's all I had. No maga-
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images?
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REFERENCES
Greenwood Press.
hectic - Teens write about the violence that surrounds them. p. 141approach it?
& Hudson.
curriculum in school:
1799-1810.
Press.
ethical activity instead of a beautiful and fun act to kill
47-66.
arts to learning.
Walderburg, H. (1990). The Berlin Wall book. New York: Thames &
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOOTNOTES
1 The same article also reported the annual expenditure that the
Special thanks to Christine Thompson, Julia Kellman, and
first time.
train while avoiding another passing train; his faulty spray paint
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