Walls of Empowerment
Title | Walls of Empowerment PDF eBook |
Author | Guisela Latorre |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2009-09-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 029277799X |
Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions, Guisela Latorre also showcases new material and original research on works and artists never before examined in print. An art form often associated with male creative endeavors, muralism in fact reflects significant contributions by Chicana artists. Encompassing these and other aspects of contemporary dialogues, including the often tense relationship between graffiti and muralism, Walls of Empowerment is a comprehensive study that, unlike many previous endeavors, does not privilege non-public Latina/o art. In addition, Latorre introduces readers to the role of new media, including performance, sculpture, and digital technology, in shaping the muralist's "canvas." Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, this timely endeavor highlights the ways in which California's Mexican American communities have used images of indigenous peoples to raise awareness of the region's original citizens. Latorre also casts murals as a radical force for decolonization and liberation, and she provides a stirring description of the decades, particularly the late 1960s through 1980s, that saw California's rise as the epicenter of mural production. Blending the perspectives of art history and sociology with firsthand accounts drawn from artists' interviews, Walls of Empowerment represents a crucial turning point in the study of these iconographic artifacts.
If These Walls Could Talk
Title | If These Walls Could Talk PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen H. O'Connell |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814634044 |
Philadelphia's community muralism movement is transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the Mural Capital of the World. This remarkable groundswell of public art includes some 3,500 wall-sized canvases: On warehouses and on schools, on mosques and in jails, in courthouses and along overpasses. In If These Walls Could Talk, Maureen O'Connell explores the theological and social significance of the movement. She calls attention to some of the most startling and powerful works it has produced and describes the narratives behind them. In doing so, O'Connell illustrates the ways that the arts can help us think about and work through the seemingly inescapable problems of urban poverty and arrive at responses that are both creative and effective. This is a book on American religion. It incorporates ethnography to explore faith communities that have used larger-than-life religious imagery to proclaim in unprecedented public ways their self-understandings, memories of the past, and visions of the future. It also examines the way this art functions in larger public discourse about problems facing every city in America. But If These Walls Could Talk is also theological text. It considers the theological implications of this most democratic expression of public art, mindful of the three components of every mural: the pieces themselves, those who create them, and those who interpret them. It illuminates a kind of beauty that seeks after social change or, in other words, the largely unexplored relationship between theological aesthetics and ethics.
Doors in the Walls of the World
Title | Doors in the Walls of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kreeft |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2018-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1681498014 |
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."— Hamlet After William Shakespeare's Horatio sees the ghost of Hamlet's father, and scarcely believes his own eyes, Hamlet tells him that there is more to reality than he can know or imagine, including ghosts. Hamlet's statement suggests that the walls of the material world, which we perceive with our senses and analyze with our intellects, have doors that open into the More beyond them. Philosopher Peter Kreeft explains in this book that the More includes "The Absolute Good, Platonic Forms, God, gods, angels, spirits, ghosts, souls, Brahman, Rta (the Hindu ontological basis for cosmological karma), Nirvana, Tao, 'the will of Heaven', The Meaning of It All, Something that deserves a capital letter." With razor-sharp reasoning and irrepressible joy, Kreeft helps us to find the doors in the walls of the world. Drawing on history, physical science, psychology, religion, philosophy, literature, and art, he invites us to welcome what lies on the other side so that we can begin living the life of Heaven in the here and now.
Democracy on the Wall
Title | Democracy on the Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Guisela Latorre |
Publisher | Global Latin/O Americas |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780814214022 |
Deconstructs the implications of street art to the social, political, and cultural movements of post-Pinochet dictatorship Chile.
¡Murales Rebeldes!
Title | ¡Murales Rebeldes! PDF eBook |
Author | Erin M. Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781626400498 |
"Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals under Siege is published by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the California Historical Society, in association with Angel City Press, as a companion publication to the exhibition Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals under Siege, September 2017/February 2018, part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA."
Drawing on Walls
Title | Drawing on Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Burgess |
Publisher | Enchanted Lion Books |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781592702671 |
Truly devoted to the idea of public art, Haring created murals wherever he went.
Questioning Empowerment
Title | Questioning Empowerment PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Rowlands |
Publisher | Oxfam |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780855983628 |
Focusing on the term empowerment this book examines the various meanings given to the concept of empowerment and the many ways power can be expressed - in personal relationships and in wider social interactions.