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Author Becker, Heather.

Title Art for the people : the rediscovery and preservation of progressive- and WPA-era murals in the Chicago public schools, 1904-1943 / by Heather Becker.

Imprint San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  751.7309773 B388a 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.
Contents PART I: CHICAGO DISCOVERS ITS MUSEUM OF WALLS -- The mural research project: discoveries of a forgotten public art collection / Heather Becker -- If walls could talk ; New class curriculum / Flora Doody -- Unveiling our historic and controversial mural, hidden for nearly sixty years / Dorothy Williams -- The genesis of the mural preservation project / Heather Becker -- The beginning of the mural preservation project / Ben Reyes -- WPA/FAP public art collections / Alicia Weber -- The mural preservation project: a mixture of art, history, and science / Heather Becker -- Preserving the Chicago Public School murals / Barry Bauman -- Preserving public art in Chicago / Ed Paschke -- PART II: PROGRESSIVE ERA MURALS: 1904 TO 1933 -- The tradition of murals in the United States: 1750 to 1933 / Heather Becker -- Mural themes from the progressive era to the WPA Federal Art Project: 1904 to 1933 and after / Francis V. O'Connor -- Progressive era murals in the Chicago Public Schools: 1904 to 1933 / Richard Murray -- PART III: WPA FEDERAL ART PROJECT MURALS: 1933 TO 1943 -- The great depression, the new deal, and the WPA Federal Art Project / Heather Becker -- The New Deal and the first federally sponsored art program: the public works of Art Project (PWAP) 1933-34 / Thomas Thurston -- The WPA Federal Art Project / William Creech -- The legacy of the New Deal / Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- One of the most vital cultural movement in America, the WPA/FAP / Harry Sternberg -- The Illinois Art Project of the Federal Art Project: 1935 to 1943 / Heather Becker -- The Illinois Art Project: an overview / George Mavigliano -- Illinois Art Project printmaking / Liz Seaton -- Government-supported easel painting in Illinois, 1933-43 / Susan Weininger -- The Illinois Theater Project and writers' project / Studs Terkel -- Styles and themes of the Chicago Mural School / Heather Becker -- Painted pedagogy: subjects and themes of New Deal murals in the Chicago Public Schools / Diana L. Linden -- A market perspective on New Deal Art / Robert Henry Adams -- My involvement as an artist in the WPA/FAP / Lucile Ward Robinson -- The WPA/FAP's impact on arts education / Heather Becker -- Going to school surrounded by art / Maria Gibbs -- Historic murals in public schools and contemporary arts education programs / Sylvia Rhor -- Integrating the murals into class curriculum / Diane Chandler -- My uncle, Mitchell Siporin: a WPA/FAP muralist / Noah Hoffman.
Summary Presents a history of school murals in Chicago which were painted during the Progressive and New Deal eras by such artists as Edgar Britton, Mitchell Siporin, and Lucille Ward.
Subject Mural painting and decoration, American -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century.
Public art -- Illinois -- Chicago.
School decoration -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Mural painting and decoration, American. (OCoLC)fst01029575
Public art. (OCoLC)fst01082064
School decoration. (OCoLC)fst01107287
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Chronological Term 1900-1999
ISBN 0811836401
9780811836401
0811835790 (pb.)
9780811835794 (pb.)

 
    
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