The Coit Tower Murals
New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 12 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252088353
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 254x178x14 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 60 color photographs, 17 black & white photographs 562
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Long description:
Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The project boosted the careers of Victor Arnautoff, Lucien Labaudt, Bernard Zakheim, and others, but Communist symbols in a few murals sparked the first of many national controversies over New Deal art.
Sixty full-color photographs illustrate Robert Cherny’s history of the murals from their conception and completion through their evolution into a beloved San Francisco landmark. Cherny traces and critiques the treatment of the murals by art critics and historians. He also probes the legacies of Coit Tower and the PWAP before surveying San Francisco’s recent controversies over New Deal murals.
An engaging account of an artistic landmark, The Coit Tower Murals tells the full story behind a public art masterpiece.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
- The Origin of the Coit Tower Murals: The Great Depression, Coit Tower, San Francisco Artists, the Mexican Muralists, and the New Deal Art Projects
- Creating the Coit Tower Murals
- The Murals
- Political Controversy, 1934
- Contemporary Reactions
- Later Controversies
- Subsequent Perspectives on the Coit Tower Murals
- Legacies
- New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
Appendix: The Coit Tower Artists
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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