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property damage that history later frames in galleries and calls a movement.
means The deliberate destruction or defacement of property, especially something that isn't yours to wreck.
from Named for the Vandals, a Germanic people who sacked Rome in 455 AD. Their reputation for plunder lingered for over a thousand years until the word 'vandalisme' was coined during the French Revolution — reportedly by a bishop, Henri Grégoire, decrying the wanton destruction of art and monuments. So the historical Vandals, who were not notably more destructive than other invaders, got branded forever by a single furious churchman.
- name origin
- From the Vandals who sacked Rome in 455 AD
- banksy paradox
- His vandalism sells for millions at auction
- legal threshold
- Defined by intent, not amount of damage
- ancient graffiti
- Pompeii walls covered in scrawled insults and ads
- broken windows
- A theory linking small damage to bigger crime
for instance
keith haring subway drawings — unauthorized chalk murals in nyc subway system 1980-85, now in major museums worldwide