Staffan Jacobson

Lars Staffan Jacobson, born 1948, is a Swedish art historian and author.

During the latter part of the 1960s he became politically active.[1] According to Jacobson he first became active in the Third World movement, then the Peace movement and since then for libertarian socialism.[2] In 1990 he published a book on graffiti art, Spraykonst and the same year he won the Swedish-American Foundation's (Sverige-Amerikastiftelsens) research scholarship in the USA.[3] In 1996 his doctoral thesis Den spraymålade bilden (The Spray-painted Image) was released. During the 2000s he published books on different subjects, some autobiographical.

Selected bibliography
  • Spraykonst - graffiti från tecken till bild. Åhus: Kalejdoskop. Libris 7676163. ISBN 91-7936-045-9 (1990)
  • Den spraymålade bilden. Graffitimåleriet som bildform, konströrelse och läroprocess. Lund: Aerosol Art Archives. Libris 8362600. ISBN 91-628-2186-5 (1996)[4]
  • Dialog om frihet. Roman om den heta sommaren i Lund 1968. Malmö: Radikal distribution. Libris 8365115. ISBN 91-631-0344-3 (2001)
  • Anarkismens återkomst. Lund: India Däck Bokcafé. Libris 10152775. ISBN 91-631-7098-1 (2006)
  • Staffan Jacobson: Målningar/Paintings 1978-2018. India Däck Bokcafé Förlag, Lund 2018. ISBN 978-91-639-6223-3

See also

References
  1. Granlund, Elisabet (14 April 2001). "Docent ville ge graffitin konststatus". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 24 June 2015.
  2. Jacobson, Staffan (16 June 2006). "Direktdemokrati - inte politikervälde". Stockholms Fria Tidning (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  3. Suzanne Bonnier, VD Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen, in letter 23/4 1990.
  4. Spolander, Roland; Fruitman, Stephen (1997). "Reviews : Staffan Jacobsson: Den spraymålade bilden - graffitimåleriet som bildform, konströrelse och läroprocess (The spray-painted image — Graffiti as pictoral form, art movement and learning process) Aerosol Art Archives: Lund, 1996". YOUNG. 5 (4): 71–72. doi:10.1177/110330889700500406. ISSN 1103-3088.


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