Tag (graffiti)
Tags are a type of graffiti. It can be a noun or a verb, like "tagging" which means to write a tag.
Tags are a simple type of graffiti. Most people who learn graffiti do tags first.[1] Tagging is usually illegal and many people think that tags are a kind of vandalism.[2] A tag is a bit like a graffiti signature.
Form[change | change source]
Tags are usually written with spray paint or marker pens. They are smaller than other types of graffiti. People practice them a lot so they can write their tag quickly, because they do not want to be seen tagging.[1]
A tag is like a signature, but is not usually the writer's real name. It is not good when two people in a town use the same name, or if someone uses the same name as a famous writer or famous tagger. Usually the names people tag are short (only 3-5 letters) so they can write them quickly.[3] Tags usually use letters from the latin script even in countries where people don't use them in normal writing.[4][5] Writers tag in their own special style, called a handstyle.[5]
History[change | change source]
People have written their names on things for a very long time.[6][7] but tags in the modern style started in the 1960s in Philadephia and New York. One of the first people to tag wrote Cornbread in Philadelphia.[8] TAKI 183 and Julio 204 were writers in New York who did a lot of tags, and many people saw and wanted to copy them.[9]
Reason for tagging[change | change source]
People like to tag so that lots of people will recognise their tag.[1] People who have lots of tags where they live are called "all city".[10] Some people write tags on stickers and put stickers on things. This is faster than writing a tag onto a public service and the writer will be less likely to be seen.[11] Many people use "my name is..." stickers to tag on.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Snyder, Gregory (2017). "Long Live the Tag: Representing the Foundations of Graffiti". In Avramidis, Konstantinos; Tsilimpounidi, Myrto (eds.). Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City. Routledge. ISBN 9781317125044.
- ↑ Vanderveen, Gabry; van Eijk, Gwen (2016-03-01). "Criminal but Beautiful: A Study on Graffiti and the Role of Value Judgments and Context in Perceiving Disorder". European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. 22 (1): 107–125. doi:10.1007/s10610-015-9288-4. ISSN 1572-9869. S2CID 55771005.
- ↑ MacGillivray, Laurie; Curwen, Margaret Sauceda (February 2007). "Tagging as a Social Literacy Practice". Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 50 (5): 354–369. doi:10.1598/JAAL.50.5.3.
- ↑ Lawrence, C. Bruce (March 2012). "The Korean English linguistic landscape: The Korean English linguistic landscape". World Englishes. 31 (1): 70–92. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.2011.01741.x.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Schacter, Rafael (2013-09-03). The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300199420.
handstyle graffiti.
- ↑ McDonald, Fiona (2013-06-13). The Popular History of Graffiti: From the Ancient World to the Present. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-62636-291-8.
- ↑ Kljun, Matjaž; Pucihar, Klen Čopič (2015). Abascal, Julio; Barbosa, Simone; Fetter, Mirko; Gross, Tom; Palanque, Philippe; Winckler, Marco (eds.). "I Was Here": Enabling Tourists to Leave Digital Graffiti or Marks on Historic Landmarks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 490–494. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_45. ISBN 978-3-319-22723-8.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ↑ Ross, Jeffrey Ian (2016-03-02). Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-64586-3.
- ↑ "'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals". The New York Times. 1971-07-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ↑ Anderson, C. (2012). "Going 'All City': The Spatial Politics of Graffiti". Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture. S2CID 155573992.
- ↑ Elsner, Daniela; Helff, Sissy; Viebrock, Britta (2013). Films, Graphic Novels & Visuals: Developing Multiliteracies in Foreign Language Education : an Interdisciplinary Approach. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90390-7.