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Mapping a New Humanism in the 1940s: Thelma Johnson Streat between Dance and Painting
Arts, 2020 Thelma Johnson Streat is perhaps best known as the first African American woman to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. However, in the 1940s−1950s she inhabited multiple coinciding roles: painter, performer, choreographer, cultural ...
Abbe Schriber
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Le muralisme des années 1930 et 1940 dans les pays du Río de la Plata
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014 The article presents four muralist proposals in the countries of the Río of la Plata during the 1930s and 1940s: 1) Ejercicio plástico, realized in 1933 in the house of the press baron Natalio Botana by the Mexican David Alfaro Siqueiros during his stay ...
Jacques Poloni-Simard
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State Murals, Protest Murals, Conflict Murals: Evolving Politics of Public Art in Ukraine
Arts, 2023 Russian interference and invasion in Ukraine have transformed that nation’s historical practice of mural painting. A traditional art form with deep religious and political resonance in Ukraine, murals have become an instrument for patriotic mass ...
Emma Louise Leahy
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Caravelle, 2018 In the 19th century Spanish-American volcanoes were a subject of study chosen as representative of Spanish-American nature and landscape. The scientific discoveries inspired European and New World artists who focused on vernacular flora to exalt new ...
Christine Frérot
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On the W@terfront, 2021 The phenomenon of wall paintings has been developing in public space since the Mexican Revolution. Murals are used, among other purposes, to capture memories. Moreover, they are one of the most popular forms of representation of the past in public space,
Adriana Krzywik
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From drinking fountains to promenades. Water as artistic medium?
On the W@terfront, 2020 From drinking fountains to promenades. Water as artistic medium? In From public art to post-muralism. Policies of urban decorum in Urban Regeneration (I) processes (Remesar 2019) when investigating the link of Public Art to urban Regeneration processes ...
Antoni Remesar
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Heritage, 2023 Contemporary muralism is one of the most widespread manifestations of urban art in cities nowadays. Loss of colour (fading) due to degradation of the pictorial materials is one of the main manifestations of deterioration in this type of artwork. However,
Enrique M. Alonso-Villar +4 more
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Les images dans le paysage iconographique cubain : quelles redéfinitions à l’heure de l’ouverture ?
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2017 The Cuban landscape is a singular visual universe born with the Revolution. Though adversiting does not exist on the island, there are manifold images of different kinds—mural paintings (in the pure Latin-American tradition of muralism) and billboards ...
Anne-Sophie Bernard
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Talking walls and figurative polyfony in Buenos Aires
Disegnare con, 2020 In Buenos Aires, many buildings powerfully assert their individual identity by showing façades with vividly decorations, almost like an antidote to the monotony of urban layout, based on the repetition ad libitum, in the vast expanse of the city, of the ...
Maria Pompeiana Iarossi
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Area-based Urban Creativity Systems in Italy: What They Are and How to Recognize Them
European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and LandscapesIn the last decade, urban creativity has manifested itself in many proximity spaces, in particular, among its visual expressions, with the ‘new muralism’ (unlike ‘graffiti writing’ and ‘street art’).
Luca Borriello, Silvia Scardapane
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