The Coit Tower Murals

The Coit Tower Murals
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780252047565
ISBN-13 : 0252047567
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Book Synopsis The Coit Tower Murals by : Robert W. Cherny

Download or read book The Coit Tower Murals written by Robert W. Cherny and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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