Street art is a period, PERIOD: or, classificatory confusion and intermural art

Categorizing and classifying, organizing and ordering are some of the most classic of human traits. As most famously shown by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962), our minds are constantly bent on cleaving the wood from the trees, finding ostensible order from within chaos, ‘classify[ing] out the universe’ (ibid.: 63) so as to create social and conceptual coherence in our lives.