ИСТИНА

In the reсent fifty years the Street art has become one of the essential parts of urban culture of many world major cities. At the same time, works of arts, created within this direction of the Contemporary arts, have also become the specific means of expression and transmission of citizens’ political views and orientations, especially the protest ones. On the example of works of the most famous British street artist – Banksy – the author tries to retrace an evolution of Street art in the UK: from the stage of being something marginal to the phase of transformation into a considerable form of political activity.