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Analysis Of Guisela Latorre´s Walls Of Empowerment

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In chapter three of Guisela LaTorre’s book Walls of Empowerment, she discusses the problems with graffiti and mural art and compares graffiti to mural art. She also discusses the gender inequality within graffiti artists and muralists, the influences of graffiti on LA, and east coast influences on muralists in the 1980s. Finally, she concludes that although mural art gains more approval than graffiti, both art forms serve to reclaim space in which the government and society traditionally denied to disfranchised
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