Jeff W. Huebner

Walls of Prophecy and Protest

William Walker and the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring thirty-five colour images of William ""Bill"" Walker's work, this edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9780810140585
• ISBN-10: 0810140586
• Artikelnr.: 54382642

Autorenporträt

Jeff W. Huebner is an arts journalist, freelance writer, and longtime contributor to the Chicago Reader and Public Art Review. His articles and reviews have also appeared in ARTnews, Sculpture, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. He is the author of Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet and the coauthor of Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures and Chicago Parks Rediscovered. Huebner has received many arts writing grants and awards. In 2017, he was an inaugural recipient of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation award for arts criticism and journalism.