aesthetics, philosophy of art, everyday aesthetics, social and political philosophy, ethics of intellectual property, philosophy of cultural heritage
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Scopus Publications
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Scopus Publications
Bombing Inequality: Graffiti Writing and Spatial Justice Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2025
Graffiti Writing as Creative Activism: Getting Up, Sheeplike Subversion, and Everyday Resistance Andrea L Baldini Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2023 Is graffiti writing creative activism? In this paper, I challenge commonly held beliefs that graffiti writing is politically inert. On the contrary, I argue that graffiti writing is an example of creative activism. Rather than being a narcissistic form of vandalism, primarily directed at increasing one’s fame in front of an esoteric group, that is, fellow writers, writing is a form of everyday resistance allowing its practitioners to challenge authoritarian power. In questioning dominant hierarchies, graffiti is a powerful tool to help correct a specific instance of spatial injustice: the unequal distribution of access to urban surfaces for self-expression in the city, where corporations and political elites hold an unjustified monopoly over visual communication.
The Graffiti Writer as Homo Sacer: Writing, Liminality, and Sovereign Power in the Neo-Liberal City Street Art and Urban Creativity, 2022
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial and Angelus Novus: Ephemera, Trauma, and Reparation in Contemporary Chinese Public Art Andrea Baldini Aisthesis Italy, 2022 What is the nature of memorials? Traditionally, memorials have been conceptualized as lasting entities preserving memories of our shared pasts. This paper challenges this view. My aim is to retheorize our practices of memorialization by examining the role that ephemerality plays in experiential memorials. Rather than fixed structures of meaning, experiential memorials are unstable careers whose significance depends on viewers’ performative engagement. I provide evidence for my thesis by developing a critical interpretation of Qi Kang’s Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall (NMMH) as an example of experiential memorial. The fragmented nature of the here and now frees visitors’ experiences. Like the wind propelling Benjamin’s Angelus Novus into future and progress, the ephemerality of NMMH’s experience unchains its significance from the constriction of dominant narratives of vengeance and resentment. If liberated temporally, the experience of memorials may help us not only to never forget, but also to find reconciliation.
Prefazione a saggi di estetica dello sport M Trombetta, AL Baldini, E Isidori Saggi di Estetica dello sport, 9-12 , 2026 2026
PARKOUR, CITY SURFACES, AND A RANCÈREAN AESTHETICS OF SPORT: FOR A REDRAWING THE SENSIBLE WITH A LEAP AL Baldini SAGGI DI ESTETICA DELLO SPORT, 68 , 2026 2026
Copyright and Collective Authorship: Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work A Baldini British Journal of Aesthetics 66 (1), 229-232 , 2026 2026
Writing on the Great Walls: Hidden Transcripts of Radical Graffiti in China AL Baldini, S Li GSA-Graffiti and Street Art 3 (2), 8-21 , 2025 2025
Bombing Inequality: Graffiti Writing and Spatial Justice AL Baldini Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 45 (4), 165-178 , 2025 2025
The Graffiti-Game and the Ubiquity of Resistance: Getting Up as Oppositional Agency AL Baldini GSA-Graffiti and Street Art 2 (1), 8-17 , 2024 2024
Book review: Enrico Bonadio, Copyright in the Street: An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023 … AL Baldini Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 14 (1), 101-105 , 2024 2024
For a Nuanced Appreciation of Urban Creativity: Unveiling the Social Subversion in Street Art and Graffiti AL Baldini GSA-Graffiti and Street Art 1 (2), 8-19 , 2023 2023 Citations: 3
Metatheoretical considerations for a definition of street art: Can algorithms identify street art? AL Baldini SAUC-Street Art and Urban Creativity (repository) 9 (2), 8-14 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
Peer-Review Statements MF Ubaidillah Advances in social science, education and humanities research , 2023 2023
Introduction: symposium on the role of aesthetics in debating culinary cultural heritage AL Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (4), 537-538 , 2023 2023 Citations: 1
Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage A Borghini, M Ravasio, AL Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (4), 551-556 , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
Graffiti writing as creative activism: Getting up, Sheeplike subversion, and everyday resistance AL Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2), 239-249 , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
STREET ART VS ARTE PUBBLICA UFFICIALE: INSERIRE IL PROGETTO ‘RECUPERO DEL CLASSICISMO’DI RAVO MATTONI IN UNA TASSONOMIA DELL’ARTE PUBBLICA AL Baldini Il pittore con le bombolette: Andrea Ravo Mattoni e l'arte pubblica, 39 , 2023 2023
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Philosophy of Street Art. AL Baldini Philosophy Compass 18 (3) , 2023 2023
The Role of Aesthetics in Debating Culinary Cultural Heritage A Baldini CAA 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE , 2023 2023
The Graffiti Writer as Homo Sacer: Writing, Liminality, and Sovereign Power in the Neo-Liberal City AL Baldini SAUC-Street Art and Urban Creativity (repository) 8 (2), 8-16 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Street Art, Graffiti, and Tags: The Value of Imperfection in Urban Aesthetics AL Baldini Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life, 327-342 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Philosophy of street art: Identity, value, and the law AL Baldini Philosophy Compass 17 (9), e12862 , 2022 2022 Citations: 5
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial and Angelus Novus: Ephemera, Trauma, and Reparation in Contemporary Chinese Public Art A Baldini Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico 15 (1), 55-67 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Street art: A reply to Riggle A Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2), 187-191 , 2016 2016 Citations: 61
COVID-19, patents and the never-ending tension between proprietary rights and the protection of public health E Bonadio, A Baldini European journal of risk regulation 11 (2), 390-395 , 2020 2020 Citations: 38
Cooking and dining as forms of public art A Borghini, A Baldini Food, Culture & Society 25 (2), 310-327 , 2022 2022 Citations: 33
A philosophy guide to street art and the law A Baldini Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law 2 (3), 1-100 , 2018 2018 Citations: 33
What is street art? AL Baldini Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59 (1), 1-21 , 2022 2022 Citations: 28
An urban carnival on the city walls: the visual representation of financial power in European street art A Baldini Journal of Visual Culture 14 (2), 246-252 , 2015 2015 Citations: 27
The Public-Art Publics: An Analysis of Some Structural Differences among Public-Art Spheres A Baldini Open Philosophy 2 (1), 10-21 , 2019 2019 Citations: 26
Beauty and the Behest: distinguishing legal judgment and aesthetic judgment in the context of 21st Century Street Art and Graffiti A Baldini Rivista di estetica, 91-106 , 2017 2017 Citations: 23
Street art, decorum, and the politics of urban aesthetics A Baldini Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive), 7 , 2020 2020 Citations: 18
Quand les murs de béton muets se transforment en un carnaval de couleur. Le street art comme stratégie de résistance sociale contre le modèle commercial de la visibilité A Baldini Cahiers de Narratologie. Analyse et théorie narratives , 2016 2016 Citations: 18
Public art: A critical approach A Baldini Temple University , 2014 2014 Citations: 17
Knitting a community back together: Spontaneous public art as citizenship engagement in post-earthquake L’Aquila A Baldini, P Pietrucci Performative Citizenship: Public Art, Urban Design and Political … , 2017 2017 Citations: 14
Copyright Skepticism and Street Art: A Contrasting Opinion A Baldini Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti: A Country-by-Country Legal Analysis … , 2019 2019 Citations: 10
Dangerous Liaisons: Graffiti in Da Museum A Baldini Un (Authorized)/Commissioned, 26-32 , 2017 2017 Citations: 10
Artists as Workers: Rethinking Creativity in a Post-Pandemic World A Baldini Rivista di estetica, 33-48 , 2022 2022 Citations: 9
Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage A Borghini, M Ravasio, AL Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (4), 551-556 , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
Graffiti writing as creative activism: Getting up, Sheeplike subversion, and everyday resistance AL Baldini The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2), 239-249 , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
Street art and the politics of improvisation AL Baldini The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts, 285-299 , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Historical formalism in Music A Baldini Contemporary Aesthetics 12 , 2014 2014 Citations: 6
On the logic of soccer patronage A Borghini, A Baldini Soccer & society 12 (5), 569-585 , 2011 2011 Citations: 6