A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Modern Mural Painting in the United States
Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics
This chapter establishes a narrative of the development of mural painting in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. It examines the murals painted in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for new courthouses, university campuses, libraries, and state houses decorated with wall paintings by a new generation of American painters trained in Europe. The chapter addresses mural painting's renaissance in the 1930s including the narrative realism of Regionalism and, at the end of the decade, abstract paintings created for New York's 1939 World's Fair, as well as the emergence of community‐based murals in the 1960s. In the 1980s with the decline of modernism's hegemony, an unforeseen resurrection of mural painting was evidenced by the ongoing community mural movement, and percent‐for‐art projects sponsored by local and federal governments. Following the Civil Rights’ Movement, mural painting moved into the streets.
Modern Mural Painting in the United States
Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics
This chapter establishes a narrative of the development of mural painting in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. It examines the murals painted in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for new courthouses, university campuses, libraries, and state houses decorated with wall paintings by a new generation of American painters trained in Europe. The chapter addresses mural painting's renaissance in the 1930s including the narrative realism of Regionalism and, at the end of the decade, abstract paintings created for New York's 1939 World's Fair, as well as the emergence of community‐based murals in the 1960s. In the 1980s with the decline of modernism's hegemony, an unforeseen resurrection of mural painting was evidenced by the ongoing community mural movement, and percent‐for‐art projects sponsored by local and federal governments. Following the Civil Rights’ Movement, mural painting moved into the streets.
Modern Mural Painting in the United States
Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics
Knight, Cher Krause (editor) / Senie, Harriet F. (editor) / Webster, Sally (author) / Rhor, Sylvia (author)
A Companion to Public Art ; 75-92
2016-08-26
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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