Andrea Baldini

@alliance.edu.in

Full Professor at the Alliance School of Liberal Arts
Alliance University

Andrea Baldini


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RESEARCH INTERESTS

aesthetics, philosophy of art, everyday aesthetics, social and political philosophy, ethics of intellectual property, philosophy of cultural heritage
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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.
  • Teaching & Learning Guide for: Philosophy of Street Art
    Andrea L. Baldini
    Philosophy Compass, 2023
  • Metatheoretical considerations for a definition of street art: Can algorithms identify street art?
    Andrea Baldini
    Street Art and Urban Creativity, 2023
    What is street art, exactly? In this paper, I address a fundamental concern about street art: its definition. The subject has been widely debated, but I approach it from a novel perspective: metatheoretical. I'm particularly interested in deconstructing the potential functions of a definition of street art, as well as the goal of definitions of street art. I then survey the literature from this vantage point, providing a well-reasoned summary of some current alternatives. I conclude by wondering if any of these definitions could be turned into an algorithm. I believe in a moderate level of optimism. Though algorithms can identify street art under certain conditions, they appear nonetheless incapable of capturing types of definitions such as evaluative definitions that include predicates whose application conditions are highly discretionary and contextually sensitive.
  • Introduction: Symposium on the Role of Aesthetics in Debating Culinary Cultural Heritage
    Andrea L Baldini
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2023
    Journal Article Introduction: Symposium on the Role of Aesthetics in Debating Culinary Cultural Heritage Get access Andrea L Baldini Andrea L Baldini andrea.baldini@fulbrightmail.org https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7709-2570 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, kpad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad040 Published: 11 September 2023 Article history Received: 01 June 2023 Accepted: 03 August 2023 Published: 11 September 2023
  • Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage
    Andrea Borghini, Matteo Ravasio, Andrea Lorenzo Baldini
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2023
    Journal Article Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage Get access Andrea Borghini, Andrea Borghini Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2239-1482 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Matteo Ravasio, Matteo Ravasio School of Arts, Peking University, Beijing, China Email: matteo@pku.edu.cn https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-1140 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andrea Lorenzo Baldini Andrea Lorenzo Baldini School of Arts, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7709-2570 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, kpad037, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad037 Published: 02 September 2023 Article history Received: 01 June 2023 Accepted: 04 August 2023 Published: 02 September 2023
  • Street art, graffiti, and tags: The value of imperfection in urban aesthetics
    Andrea Lorenzo Baldini
    Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life, 2022
    Though many today appreciate several styles of street art, graffiti are still generally despised. They are dismissed as pointless disruption of the aesthetics of the ‘perfect city’: scribbles ruining urban harmony and décor. However, graffiti’s undiluted power of introducing imperfection in the city’s landscape has significant consequences at a formal and aesthetic-political level that require attention. In this paper, I argue that, by challenging ideals of urban perfection, on the one hand, graffiti—especially its most basic style, namely tags—allow us to appreciate the irregular, the disordered, and the rough, thus enriching our aesthetic urban lives. On the other hand, as examples of spontaneous self-expression in the public domain, graffiti also function as an antidote to dominant oppressive policies of urban development.
  • Philosophy of Street Art: Identity, Value, and the Law
    Andrea Lorenzo Baldini
    Philosophy Compass, 2022
    Abstract We are living in the era of street art. Since Nick Riggle’s pivotal work on the definition of street art, several philosophers have addressed issues in the philosophy of street art. The goal of this paper is to summarize the literature. I consider the following matters, which have been at the core of philosophical discussions on street art: demarcation, value, illegality, and the ethical foundation of intellectual property (IP) protection. In answering the question ‘What is street art?,’ philosophers have generally resisted skeptical approaches by developing a wide range of real and essentialist definitions of street art (Section 2). When considering street art’s value, I distinguish between aesthetic and non‐aesthetic centered accounts. If the former focus on the aesthetic side of our experience of street art, the latter generally place emphasis on its activist nature and political significance (Section 3). In discussing the relationship between street art and illegality, I canvas different takes on the issue. If for some scholars illegality is either a necessary or sufficient condition for street art, philosophers tend to agree that it is neither, while not denying its relevance at the level of identity and authenticity (Section 4). Finally, I consider matters of IP protection of street art. On the one hand, copyright optimists defend the view that current IP legislations may very well have a positive impact on the promotion and preservation of street art. Pessimists, on the other hand, argue that an extension of copyright privileges to works of street art is likely to jeopardize the counter‐cultural and rebellious nature of this urban art kind (Section 5).
  • 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.
  • Artists as Workers: Rethinking Creativity in a Post-Pandemic World
    Andrea Baldini
    Rivista Di Estetica, 2022
  • What Is Street Art?
    Andrea Lorenzo Baldini
    Estetika, 2022
  • Cooking and dining as forms of public art
    Andrea Borghini, Andrea Baldini
    Food Culture and Society, 2022
  • Street art and the politics of improvisation
    Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts, 2021
  • Covid-19, patents and the never-ending tension between proprietary rights and the protection of public health
    Enrico BONADIO, Andrea BALDINI
    European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2020
  • Signature (and) Dishes: Spontaneity and Imperfection in Cooking and Graffiti Writing
    Humana Mente, 2020
  • Copyright skepticism and street art: A contrasting opinion
    Cambridge Handbook of Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti, 2019
  • The Public-Art Publics: An Analysis of Some Structural Differences among Public-Art Spheres
    Andrea Baldini
    Open Philosophy, 2019
  • There and Back Again: Redistributing Visibility between the Virtual and Real Alleys of Graffiti
    Street Art and Urban Creativity, 2019
  • Beauty and the behest: Distinguishing legal judgment and aesthetic judgment in the context of 21st century street art and graffiti
    Andrea Baldini
    Rivista Di Estetica, 2017
  • Street art: A reply to Riggle
    ANDREA BALDINI
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2016
  • On the Site-Specificity of Public Art
    Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016
  • An urban carnival on the city walls: The visual representation of financial power in european street art
    Andrea Baldini
    Journal of Visual Culture, 2015

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • 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