Guide to Chicago's Murals

Name: Guide to Chicago's Murals
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ISBN: 9780226305998

ISBN-10: 0226305996

ISBN-13: 9780226305998

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mary Lackritz Gray, Franz Schulze

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Chicago is a city known for its fabulous architecture and public sculpture by artists such as Picasso and Calder, but anyone who has seen the gorgeous lunettes in the Auditorium Theater or the South Side's Wall of Respect, which inaugurated the city's contemporary mural movement, knows that Chicago has an equally rich tradition of mural painting. Through these murals, the history of Chicago and the nation is writ in churches and lobbies, on viaducts and school walls. Mary Gray's A Guide to Chicago's Murals is the first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. With full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.77" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Central Area Near South and Near West Sides


South Side


North Side


Suburbs and Outlying Areas


But Not Forgotten Addendum



Other Missing Murals



Public Schools with Extant Murals


Biographies of Artists


Glossary


Bibliography


Index