.... Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitled has not been hit with graffiti or painted over by the city. I argue that such acceptance of these graffiti-murals calls antigraffiti laws...

... American History. The essay's final section examines the cartoonlike paintings of the African American artists Laylah Ali and Kojo Griffin. Figuring is the conceptual thread uniting these African diasporic moments, which, though not causally related, similarly transgress against limiting definitions...

...Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Critics of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 often paint the picture of a failed revolution when they focus on the structure of employment or on income inequality, neither of which indicates improvement or deep social change. I argue here that the critics miss an important...

...David Carey, Jr.; Walter E. Little In a nation that often silences them, Maya in Guatemala are increasingly expressing themselves through public murals. When teachers, artists, students, and other residents of San Juan Comalapa painted the history of their nation, town, and people, they portrayed...

... as a vitally important skill. As Germany endured an interregnum identity crisis, the photographic book proved an effective alternative to what were perceived to be the more subjective, traditional “fine arts” of painting and sculpture. More than innocuous collections of fine art photography, these books...

...Jen Jack Gieseking Queer theory's embrace of instability paints stabilizing practices as normalizing and unjust. Rather than upholding a stance of opposition by championing instability alone, what can be gleaned for queer theory by examining the tension of the in/stability dialectic? This essay...

... of fences in U.S. history. The present study examines a stop in the Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho, in the summer of 2009. Local organizers supplemented the touring material with displays of fences in the history and culture of the U.S. West. These displays, mostly of photographs and paintings...

... indigenous bodies and indigenous histories were used to justify conquest and colonization. Painting Indians as exotic, erotic “others” served a dual purpose: not only did it rationalize colonialism, but it also created a market demand for cultural tourism in which non-Natives leapt at the opportunity to see...

...-expression; the least known may be the tradition of albums and amateur painting. In countless pictures of family, friends, homes and travels, as well as in self-portraits, middle- and upper-class women all over Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, painted or drew a domestic existence...

... large-scale oil paintings, The Second of May and The Third of May, and in his famous series of etchings known as The Disasters of War. In 1819 the French artist Theodore Géricault was inspired to paint his most famous work, Raft of the Medusa, when a French naval vessel was shipwrecked off...

... familiar works-such as George Catlin's paint- ings of American Indians, Frederic Remington's bronze cowboys, anecdotal views of frontier life by George Caleb Bingham, and wall- sized landscapes by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt-with less familiar paintings as well as photographs, book...

... Robert L. Herbert With the advent of symbolism in the late 1880s, and the growth of an anti-naturalist current in the paintings of younger artists (Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin), impressionist art came to be regarded as an unthinking form of naturalism. The symbolist critics praised...

...John Hutton Copyright © April 1987 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1987 Left of Center, Against the Grain: T. J. Clark and the Social History of Art John Hutton T. J. Clark, The Painting...

.../Republican News; to the “Paint and Poster” campaign suggested by Bobby Sands;1 to support for the prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. Danny is best known for his murals, which he began in the wake of the 1981 hunger strike and which became some of the world’s best-known examples of political art...

... together the revolutionary social criticism of the Mexican muralists, the powerful and increasingly popular paintings of Frida Kahlo, the striking surrealist pieces of Chilean Roberto Matta, and the fine Afro-Brazilian representations of Candido Portinari. It was heartening to see a number...