Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0826319327
ISBN 13
9780826319326
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
384
Description
First published in 1977, Toward a People's Art remains a classic study of the community-based mural movement that produced hundreds of large-scale wall paintings in the United States and Canada. The authors provide a comprehensive discussion of the muralists, the murals' effects on the community, and the funding these works received. Those interested in art and social change will welcome this new edition, which represents an ongoing faith in the ideal of participatory democracy as the best way to confront the nation's social problems and in the potential of activist art to have long-term social impact. The introduction describes the era-the late 1960s-and a new afterword looks at the 1980s and 1990s and the continuing commitment to the community-engaged process of making public art. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
