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Chapters include High Resolution Documentation of the Murals of San Bartolo Guatemala by William SaturnoStrontium Isotopic Identification of an Early Classic Migrant to Punta de Chimino Guatemala by Lori E Wright and Bruce R BachandCommunal and Personal Hunting Shrines Around Lake Atitlan Guatemala by Linda A BrownThe Discovery of Plan de Ayutla Mexico by Luis Alberto Martos LópezPainted Lithic Artifacts from Piedras Negras Guatemala by Zachary X Hruby and Gene WareThe Womb of the World The Cuauhxicalli and Other Offering Bowls of Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica by Karl Taube
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The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W Lees fascinating book Led by Rivera these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visible form to labor and radical ideologies including CommunismSeveral murals and details of others are reproduced here for the first time Of special interest are works by Rivera that chart a progress from mural paintings commissioned for private spaces to those produced as a public act in a public space Allegory of California painted in 193031 at the Stock Exchange Lunch Club Making a Fresco Showing the Building of a City done a few months later at the California School of Fine Arts and Pan American Unity painted in 1940 for the Golden Gate International ExpositionLabor itself became a focus of the new murals Rivera painted a massive representation of a construction worker just as San Franciscos workers were themselves organizing Victor Arnautoff Bernard Zakheim John Langley Howard and Clifford Wight painted panels in Coit Tower that acknowledged the resolve of the dockworkers striking on the streets below Radical in technique as well these muralists used new compositional strategies of congestion misdirection and fragmentation subverting the legible narratives and coherent allegories of traditional muralsLee relates the development of wall painting to San Franciscos international expositions of 1915 and 1939 the new museums and art schools corporate patronage and the concerns of immigrants and ethnic groups And he examines how mural painters struggled against those forces that threatened their practice the growing acceptance of modernist easel painting the vagaries of New Deal patronage and a wartime nationalism hostile to radical politics
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The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W Lees fascinating book Led by Rivera these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visible form to labor and radical ideologies including CommunismSeveral murals and details of others are reproduced here for the first time Of special interest are works by Rivera that chart a progress from mural paintings commissioned for private spaces to those produced as a public act in a public space Allegory of California painted in 193031 at the Stock Exchange Lunch Club Making a Fresco Showing the Building of a City done a few months later at the California School of Fine Arts and Pan American Unity painted in 1940 for the Golden Gate International ExpositionLabor itself became a focus of the new murals Rivera painted a massive representation of a construction worker just as San Franciscos workers were themselves organizing Victor Arnautoff Bernard Zakheim John Langley Howard and Clifford Wight painted panels in Coit Tower that acknowledged the resolve of the dockworkers striking on the streets below Radical in technique as well these muralists used new compositional strategies of congestion misdirection and fragmentation subverting the legible narratives and coherent allegories of traditional muralsLee relates the development of wall painting to San Franciscos international expositions of 1915 and 1939 the new museums and art schools corporate patronage and the concerns of immigrants and ethnic groups And he examines how mural painters struggled against those forces that threatened their practice the growing acceptance of modernist easel painting the vagaries of New Deal patronage and a wartime nationalism hostile to radical politics
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Offers a survey of modern painting photography sculpture ceramics and murals from the San Francisco area and provides brief profiles of each artist
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With 600 stunning photographs this comprehensive book showcases more than three decades of street art in San Franciscos legendary Mission District Beginning in the early 1970s a provocative streetart movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting surrealism pop art urban punk ecowarrior cartoon and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic multicultural communityRigo Las Mujeres Muralistas Gronk Barry McGee Twist R Crumb Spain Rodriguez the Billboard Liberation Front Swoon Sam Flores Neckface Shepard Fairey Juana Alicia Os Gemeos Reminesce and Andrew Schoultz are among the many artists who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery Essays and commentaries by insiders involved with the movement document the artistic social and political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo
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Connecting San Francisco and Oakland the Bay Bridge is a sight to behold This beautiful wall mural captures the glory of this Californian infrastructure complete with a sparkling view of the city in the background Bay Bridge Wall Mural comes on 8 panels Measures 8ft 4in wide by 12ft 1in tall when assembled Color Blue
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During the Great Depression a series of commissions allowed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera 18861957 to leave his mark on the walls of the United States The mural he painted for San Franciscos Pacific Stock Exchange 19301931 attracted the attention of William Valentiner the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts who commissioned him to paint the walls of the museums Garden Court Edsel Ford the president of the Ford Motor Company agreed to fund the project and became a great champion of the artist The vast Ford factory on the Rouge River where Rivera spent days sketching inspired the images depicted on the walls of the Garden Court After Detroit Industry 19321933 Rivera began work on large murals in Manhattans Rockefeller Center a dispute between the artist and the building managers climaxed in the destruction of the artists work Pomegranates books of postcards contain up to thirty topquality reproductions bound together in a handy artful collection Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage
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Winner Society for American Archaeology Book Award 2017San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award 2019The prehistoric huntergatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila Mexico created some of the most spectacularly complex colorful extensive and enduring rock art of the ancient world Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural an intricate painting that spans some twentysix feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River In The White Shaman Mural Carolyn E Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of timemaking it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North AmericaUnlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function Drawing on twentyfive years of archaeological research and analysis as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate in stunning detail to the mythologies of UtoAztecanspeaking peoples including the ancient Aztec and the presentday Huichol This paradigmshifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago
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Winner Society for American Archaeology Book Award 2017San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award 2019The prehistoric huntergatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila Mexico created some of the most spectacularly complex colorful extensive and enduring rock art of the ancient world Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural an intricate painting that spans some twentysix feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River In The White Shaman Mural Carolyn E Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of timemaking it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North AmericaUnlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function Drawing on twentyfive years of archaeological research and analysis as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate in stunning detail to the mythologies of UtoAztecanspeaking peoples including the ancient Aztec and the presentday Huichol This paradigmshifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago
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During the Great Depression a series of commissions allowed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera 18861957 to leave his mark on the walls of the United States The mural he painted for San Franciscos Pacific Stock Exchange 19301931 attracted the attention of William Valentiner the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts who commissioned him to paint the walls of the museums Garden Court Edsel Ford the president of the Ford Motor Company agreed to fund the project and became a great champion of the artist The vast Ford factory on the Rouge River where Rivera spent days sketching inspired the images depicted on the walls of the Garden Court After Detroit Industry 19321933 Rivera began work on large murals in Manhattans Rockefeller Center a dispute between the artist and the building managers climaxed in the destruction of the artists work Pomegranates books of postcards contain up to thirty topquality reproductions bound together in a handy artful collection Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage
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Dick Evans captures the pulse of life in the Mission District the San Francisco neighborhood known for its murals and Latin American cultureand more recently for its rapid gentrification Intimate colorful images depict a place filled with diverse residents stately Victorian houses handpainted store signs Carnaval dancers Día de los Muertos celebrants political activists and its namesake Mission Dolores here juxtaposed against portraits of Native people and indigenous cultural objects Poetry and quotations from Mission residents are interspersed throughout deepening viewers immersion into this community But at the heart of the book is the Missions famous public art works that depict Latin American culture resistance to political oppression passion for environmental justice and outrage at gentrification Evanss photos highlight the growing threat to the neighborhoods character but they also reveal the many changes that have shaped the neighborhood into its vivacious presentday identity
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To create the Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas mural commissioned for the 1968 Worlds Fair in San Antonio Texas Juan OGorman collected natural stones from all over Mexicotwelve colors in allfield stones that the artist knew would never fade or change their hue Juan OGorman A Confluence of Civilizations follows the life of OGorman and covers the creation of this spectacular piece of midcentury public art which stands the test of time not just in vibrancy but as one of the most influential works created by a Mexican artistJuan OGorman was a not only a painter and a muralist a mosaic artist a critic and a professor he was also an architect and a revolutionary possibly most famous for his close friendship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and as the designer of their twohouse studio in Mexico CityCasa Azullinked by a symbolic bridgeTo celebrate San Antonios HemisFair Exposition in 1968 OGorman created the giant mosaic mural that still adorns one wall of the Lila Cockrell Theater along San Antonios famed River Walk The fiveton mosaic measured 2600 square feet and consisted of 540 numbered panels each weighing about 90 pounds
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The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W Lees fascinating book Led by Rivera these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visible form to labor and radical ideologies including CommunismSeveral murals and details of others are reproduced here for the first time Of special interest are works by Rivera that chart a progress from mural paintings commissioned for private spaces to those produced as a public act in a public space Allegory of California painted in 193031 at the Stock Exchange Lunch Club Making a Fresco Showing the Building of a City done a few months later at the California School of Fine Arts and Pan American Unity painted in 1940 for the Golden Gate International ExpositionLabor itself became a focus of the new murals Rivera painted a massive representation of a construction worker just as San Franciscos workers were themselves organizing Victor Arnautoff Bernard Zakheim John Langley Howard and Clifford Wight painted panels in Coit Tower that acknowledged the resolve of the dockworkers striking on the streets below Radical in technique as well these muralists used new compositional strategies of congestion misdirection and fragmentation subverting the legible narratives and coherent allegories of traditional muralsLee relates the development of wall painting to San Franciscos international expositions of 1915 and 1939 the new museums and art schools corporate patronage and the concerns of immigrants and ethnic groups And he examines how mural painters struggled against those forces that threatened their practice the growing acceptance of modernist easel painting the vagaries of New Deal patronage and a wartime nationalism hostile to radical politics
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Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Franciscos leading mural painter during the New Deal era Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter Robert W Chernys masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artists work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Franciscos arts communities Cherny traces Arnautoffs life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deals art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University As Arnautoffs politics moved left he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present In the 1950s however his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford Arnautoff eventually departed America a refugee of another kind now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the leftlabor culture that had nurtured him before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy
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