--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Graffiti, Marker & Spray Cans cover: alt: Graffiti Master Thesis height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/graffiti-master-thesis/graffiti-master-thesis1.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2010-10-12T12:32:40Z' description: Have you ever read a scientific paper about graffiti or other urban art subcultures? Dutch student Silvia Pietrosanti wrote “A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls” as her master thesis... tags: - Mural Art - Graffiti Europe title: Graffiti Master Thesis url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/graffiti-master-thesis/ --- # Graffiti Master Thesis *Graffiti Paper* | The master thesis by Dutch student **Silvia Pietrosanti** includes about 90 pages, but that’s not really unusual. It’s the content which makes this dissertation rare. The European Communication student wrote *“A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls”* and that’s quite interesting! > The question of graffiti crossed my mind again last year, during a class named ‘Subcultures and Lifestyles’ when I had to pick one subculture to discuss in a final paper. I chose the graffiti subculture so that I could finally explore what was going on in the minds of the people standing behind those tags. > > However, after reading for that paper, my interest for that subculture grew extensively, and I was eager to know more and find out about areas that were left undressed by previous studies. What I really wanted to do was go into that field and experience these things that were only theoretically described and write my thesis to give a voice to the graffiti writers. (Silvia Pietrosanti, Preface) Although I haven’t read [the entire paper](http://dare.uva.nl/document/176214) now, I recommend it for those of you who want to deal with graffiti and the ideas behind it in a more scientific way. For notes and annotations use the comment area... Via [graffiti-art-on-trains.blogspot.com](http://graffiti-art-on-trains.blogspot.com/2010/09/thesis-about-european-graffiti-writers.html).