The Sex of Graffiti Urban art, women and “gender perception”: testing biases in the eye of the observer

• Parisi, Vittorio ^[1]
  1. [1] PhD Candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Aesthetics and Cultural Studies Institut ACTE – Arts, Créations, Théories, Esthétiques (CNRS)
• Localización: Street Art & Urban Creativity, ISSN-e 2183-9956, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Methodologies for Research), págs. 53-62
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper I explore the intersection between urban creativity and gender studies, through a composite methodology and with a double purpose: to examine the role and the recognition of women in the graffiti and street art milieu; and to test the existence, the extent, and the quality of gender biases in the eye of the observer. In order to accomplish these two tasks, I examined existing literature treating the subject and created a visual survey. Observations and results from each step of the present work reveal a general lack of recognition of women’s role in street art and graffiti, as well as a remarkable amount of gender preconceptions during mere aesthetic appreciation of urban works of art.