GRGR(7): These things appear on the walls ...

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "These things appear on the walls of the Red districts in the course of the 
  night. Nobody can track down author or painter for any of them, leading you to 
  suspect they're one and the same. Enough to make you believe in a 
  folk-conciousness. They are not slogans so much as texts, revealed in order to 
  be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people ..."
  (p. 155) 

  "By the mid 1970s graffiti emerged as a central example of the extend of urban 
   decay and heightened already existing fears over a loss of control of the 
   urban landscape. If the city could not stop these young outlaws from writing 
   all over trains and walls, some political leaders feared, then what could the 
   city manage? Recontructed as symbols of civic disorder, graffiti writers were 
   understood as a psychic as well as material toll on New York, solidifying its 
   image as a lawless, downtrodden urban jungle.
   As the NEW YORK TIMES and municipal representatives searched for newer and 
   more aggressive strategies to stamp out graffiti writing and symbolically 
   reestablish control, graffiti writers were expanding and refining the form. 
   In the mid-1970s, elaborate train facade murals and multicar pieces arrived 
   on platforms most mornings. A simple name tag had developed into multiple 
   train car skylines, Christmas greetings, abstract drawings likened to cubist 
   art, romantic expressions, and political slogans all drawn with illustrations 
   in dozens of colors, shades, styles and elaborated lettering". 
   (Tricia Rose: Black Noise. Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary 
    America. New England/Hanover 1994: WUP, p. 44f.)

    Yours, KFL ///::: PS: "Die boese Moese hat Rotze in der Votze" (- writing on 
    the wall of my local subway station).