“…thinking about the present as a moment when many are needing to urgently reimagine the aesthetics of resistance, dissensus, alterity, and otherness, Monumental Graffiti is required reading.”—Scratching the Surface“Schacter’s exuberant academic book traces the line of graffiti, using ‘public space’ as the frame (literally), balancing the individual acts of graffiti writers and other public-space remodelers against the monuments and official totems of colonization that tag spaces you might otherwise think belonged to the people.”—4columns“[Monumental Graffiti], with numerous full-color photographs of examples, from the crude and quick-drawn tag to the massive mural-esque installations, is academic in its examination, and accessible, too, in the way it considers not just what graffiti is and does, but how that contrasts with what the monument is and does, the way it enforces and bolsters institutions and institutional heritage.”—The Boston Globe“A vivid and ambitious new book.”—Critical Inquiry
