Walls of Prophecy & Protest: William Walker & the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement - Couverture souple

Huebner, Jeff W.

 
9780810140585: Walls of Prophecy & Protest: William Walker & the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0810140586 ISBN 13 : 9780810140585
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Chicago is home to more intact African American street murals from the 1970s and 1980s than any other U.S. city. Among Chicago’s greatest muralists is the legendary William “Bill” Walker (1927–2011), compared by art historians to Diego Rivera. Francis O’Connor, America’s foremost mural historian, called Walker the most accomplished contemporary practitioner of the classical mural tradition that runs from Giotto to Rivera.

Though his art could not have been more public, Walker maintained a low profile during his working life and virtually withdrew from the public eye after his retirement in 1989. Author Jeff W. Huebner met Walker in 1990 and embarked on a series of insightful interviews in 2008. Those meetings form the basis of Walls of Prophecy and Protest, the story of Walker’s remarkable life and the movement that he inspired.

Featuring thirty-five color images of Walker’s work, this handsome edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago’s famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeff W. Huebner is an arts journalist, freelance writer, and longtime contributor to the Chicago Reader and Public Art Review. His articles and reviews have also appeared in ARTnews, Sculpture, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. He is the author of Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet and the coauthor of Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures and Chicago Parks Rediscovered. Huebner has received many arts writing grants and awards. In 2017, he was an inaugural recipient of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation award for arts criticism and journalism.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810140586
ISBN 13 
9780810140585
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Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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