Christoph Ganter covers the history of informal mark-making in the public realm, from the first unauthorized characters inscribed on the ancient walls of Egypt and Pompeii to nineteenth-century Vienna, where Joseph Kyselak established himself as the father of graffiti; from New York\'s "Taki 183," the first modern Graffiti writer, to more recent developments brought about by the Hip Hop revolution.
The effects of the 1980s films Beat Street , Wild Style , and StyleWars.
Christoph Ganter covers the history of informal mark-making in the public realm, from the first unauthorized characters inscribed on the ancient walls of Egypt and Pompeii to nineteenth-century Vienna, where Joseph Kyselak established himself as the father of graffiti; from New York\'s "Taki 183," the first modern Graffiti writer, to more recent developments brought about by the Hip Hop revolution
