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He reveals how the jousts and tournaments of the Renaissance transported knightly combat into a kind of performance art

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Graffiti Grrlz John Tehranian He reveals how the joustsAn inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists' anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a "boys club," where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost