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Murals
… a collective social knowledge, intersects with murals in that plants also provide us with pigments. A mural for an abortion clinic holds the ambition of elevating this historic narrative of reproductive care and agency by encoding knowledge in pigments, a lost history in images. For this …
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A Handbook for School Murals
It is difficult for a classroom teacher to plan and carry out a mural program with very little help or none. Nothing has been available that would serve as a practical guide for the teacher who plans to carry out a mural program. It is with this desire to help meet the needs of the elementary …
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Abstraction Unframed: Abstract Murals In New York, 1935-1960
… abstractions and expand them into wall-filling murals. This dissertation analyzes moments from the history of unframed abstraction during modernism’s rise and popularity in the United States, from ca. 1935 to ca. 1960, in and around New York. Scholars have generally treated such murals as …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
… and inscriptional content of temple and palace murals donated by merchants, monastics, and political elites. The dissertation consists of two parts: documentation and formal analysis, and semantic and historical analysis. Documentation and formal analysis of these murals, which decorate the …
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To the Wall: London's Murals and 'the Left', 1975-1986
… Left-wing politics and a body of exterior murals made in London between 1975 and 1986. Across this period approximately three hundred murals were made on the walls of London’s streets. Funded by a complex amalgam of predominantly state patronage, many of these murals gave form to the …
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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
<p>The militaristic interpretations of the art of Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico, fails to sufficiently describe its entire decorative program. Absent from discussions of the art tradition is the apparent focus on merchant activity in the city. The influence and power of merchants strengthened …
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Hope For Tomorrow: Black-Native Relationalities In The Murals Of John T. Biggers
… and African American cultures in monumental murals. His artwork reflects his education at Hampton University, Virginia where he was taught the power of racial and cultural self- determination through art. This pedagogy was practiced throughout his career in Houston, Texas as an arts educator …
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Situating the Corrido in Diego Rivera’s Murals at the Ministry of Public Education
… amount of scholarship surrounding Rivera and his murals at the Ministry of Public Education, there is a gap in literature about the inclusion of the corrido banner and its significance. By building on the scholarship from art historians (Mary Coffey, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Anna Indych-López), …
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
… margins of U.S. dominant culture. Chicanana/o murals, for the most part, did not grace the walls of major public and government buildings; rather, they decorated the walls along the streets of the barrios and urban neighborhoods through out the country.
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“Taco Art” and the End of “The Barrio”: Murals, Community and Politics in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood
… Era. In early years, Chicano artists created murals as acts of cultural affirmation and political resistance, reclaiming space in the face of displacement and neglect. This grassroots energy is captured in the concept of the “little room,” where artists, activists, and neighbors built power …
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“Painting Section” or Painting Texas?: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in the Texas New Deal Post Office Murals
… addresses the Texas New Deal Post Office murals, which were commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts as part of a national New Deal arts program meant to decorate newly constructed Post Offices. I analyze the Texas murals from local, state, regional and national perspectives to argue two …
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Sacred, Sensual and Sublime: An Iconographic Study of the Female Nude in the Murals of Diego Rivera
… tradition of fresco painting in Mexico. These murals expressed Rivera's hopes for an emerging national identity that included Mexico's disenfranchised peoples. In order to help convey his doctrines to a largely illiterate population, Rivera invented diverse allegories which featured the female …
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Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation: Public Art And the Marketing of Philadelphia
… Pennsylvania. The overwhelming presence of murals in the urban landscape calls into question how these figurative wall-sized paintings improve the lives and neighborhoods in which these paintings are found. With Philadelphia suffering the consequences of deindustrialization and neoliberal …
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The Chicano Mural Movement of the Southwest: Populist Public Art and Chicano Political Activism
… Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to reach into the barrios and marginalized neighborhoods for the primary purpose of carrying a resistance message to the …
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Beyond Silk: A Re-Evaluation Of Jin Painting (1115 - 1234)
… paintings. The second chapter examines tomb murals and how northern funerary painting traditions were preserved and permutated in Jin China. The third chapter examines the twelfth century temple hall murals at Yanshansi and highlights the murals’ place as a crossroads between regional …
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
… well as the controversies that arose from their murals. This thesis will explore the influence that the Mexican mural movement had in the United States in the creation of a government-sponsored program for the arts (The New Deal, Works Progress Administration). During the 1930s, sociological …
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A technical and historical analysis of the decorative paintings by Nicola Monachesi in the Richard Alsop IV house, Middletown, Connecticut
… villa design and exceptional first-floor murals. Attributed to Italian émigré Nicola Monachesi, these murals are one of only two surviving works by the artist and have undergone minimal intervention since their creation. The most significant treatment occurred after Wesleyan University’s …
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A Technical Study of the Mural Paintings of the Interior Dome of the Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario, Iglesia San José, San Juan, Puerto Rico
This is a technical study of the extant murals of the 17th Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario located within Iglesia San José, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The primary objectives of this investigation were to: document existing mural campaigns, establish a chronology of mural painting through analysis of …
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