The Coit Tower Murals ? New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher MO ? University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 13 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046285
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 254x178x15 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 60 color photographs, 17 black & white photographs 700
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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.
“Robert Cherny's brilliantly captivating recounting and debunking of historical and apocryphal stories about Coit Tower's inspiring murals powerfully demonstrates how that groundbreaking and influential early 1930s public art project continues to be relevant as a beacon, illuminating issues that still impact us today.”--Mark Dean Johnson, coeditor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970 More
