Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement - Softcover

Cockcroft, Eva; Weber, John Pitman; Cockcroft, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826319327 ISBN 13: 9780826319326

Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Eva Cockcroft is a muralist and writer who lives in Los Angeles. John Pitman Weber continues to be active in the Chicago Public Art Group (formerly the Chicago Mural Group) and teaches at Elmhurst College. James Cockcroft, a sociologist, is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Latinos in Bisbol. Ben Keppel teaches history at the University of Oklahoma, and Timothy Drescher teaches interdisciplinary humanities and critical social thought at San Francisco State University. Lucy R. Lippard is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0826319327
• ISBN 13: 9780826319326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384