The Muralist

• Author : B. A. Shapiro
• Publisher : Algonquin Books
• Release Date : 2016-10-11
• Total pages : 368
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, The Collector's Apprentice, available now! “Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post “B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art ...

• Author : Rupika Chawla
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1994
• Total pages : 142
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Study of A. Ramachandran, b. 1935, Indian muralist....

• Author : David Kunzle,Miguel D'Escoto
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 1995-11-30
• Total pages : 203
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Kunzle outlines the historical conditions in Nicaragua that gave rise to the Revolution and to the murals, from the era of Sandino and the Somozas to the Sandinistas and the subsequent U.S.-supported contra war. He chronicles the politically vindictive destruction of many of the best murals and the ...

• Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release Date : 2014-07-03
• Total pages : 246
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco document the collision ...

• Author : Bruce Campbell
• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 243
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : "Blending ethnography, political science, and sociology with art history, Campbell traces the emergence of modern Mexican mural art as a composite of aesthetic, discursive, and performative elements through which collective interests and identities are shaped. He focuses on mural activists engaged combatively with the state - in barrios, unions, and ...

• Author : Jane Golden,Robin Rice,Natalie Pompilio
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• Release Date : 2006
• Total pages : 159
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell, a sequel to Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell, shares with the earlier work its color photography, along with profiles of the artists. Featured here is the remarkable story of an unlikely artistic collaboration - between boys who live in a ...

• Author : Lora Jost,Dave Loewenstein
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2006
• Total pages : 278
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Complete listing and history of murals in Kansas today, with each mural illustrated....

• Author : Brian P. Kennedy
• Publisher : Hood Museum of Art
• Release Date : 2015-10-06
• Total pages : 164
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Dartmouth College is in the unique position of having a magnificent large fresco by the Mexican muralist JosŽ Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) adorning the campus library. Completed by the artist in 1934 and titled The Epic of American Civilization, this work was promptly condemned by many alumni as being too critical of ...

• Author : Jonathan Skinner,Lee Jolliffe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-06-26
• Total pages : 300
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being ...

• Author : Jane Golden,David M. Scobey,Robin Rice,Monica Yant Kinney
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 159
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This small exercise in fighting graffiti grew into the most vibrant public art project in the United States. Led by ...

• Author : Fernando Fabio Sanchez
• Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 240
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Latin American Studies; Political Science; Popular Culture; Border Studies....

• Author : Janet Braun-Reinitz,Jane Weissman
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release Date : 2009
• Total pages : 244
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Energizing the visual landscape since 1968, New York City's community murals beautify, educate, protest, celebrate, and often motivate residents to action. Collaborations between artists and neighborhood groups, these painted walls reflect the social, cultural, and political climate of their times. The result of six years of research and hundreds of interviews, ...

• Author : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
• Publisher : University of Wales Press
• Release Date : 2012-01-05
• Total pages : 234
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970’s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of ...

• Author : Carrie Russell
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release Date : 2012
• Total pages : 173
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : Advises school librarians on the issue of copyright, including fair use, infringement, digital copyright, and student work....

• Author : Joy James
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-01-21
• Total pages : 222
• ISBN : 1616206438

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Summary : In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through ...