Ryan Schnurr

University of Illinois-Chicago

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OBEY Giant: A Case Study in the Semiotics of Consumption

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Ryan Schnurr University of Illinois-Chicago

January 27, 2015
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OBEY Giant: A Case Study in the Semiotics of Consumption street art OBEY Giant advertising Curator's Note The image of interest is Shepard Fairey’s OBEY Giant. Originally conceived in 1989 as a sticker with the phrase “Andre the Giant has a posse” (i ...

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Re: OBEY Giant: A Case Study in the Semiotics of Consumption

Re: OBEY Clothing

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Ryan Schnurr University of Illinois-Chicago

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 — 8:15 pm
This is a great addition. I think it's pretty clear that Fairey no longer has the same intent for this campaign, and I do not intend to make any claim to the contrary. He's explicitly told interviewers that he is a capitalist who has no problem ...
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Re: Temporary Sites of Memory & the Spectacle: The Performance of JR's Unframed Project as Cultural Identity

SHAPING THE NARRATIVE

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Ryan Schnurr University of Illinois-Chicago

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 — 8:56 pm
Fascinating stuff, Imani, thanks for sharing! There's something jarring about seeing history pulled out of books and newspapers and photo albums and interjected into the everyday of the here and now. What's interesting to me is the large-scale ( ...