If These Walls Could Talk

Name: If These Walls Could Talk
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ISBN: 9780814633403

ISBN-10: 0814633404

ISBN-13: 9780814633403

Edition: 2012

Authors: Maureen H. O'Connell, Jane Golden

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Philadelphia's community muralism movement is transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the Mural Capital of the World. This remarkable groundswell of public art includes some 3,500 wall-sized canvases? On warehouses and on schools, on mosques and in jails, in courthouses and along overpasses.In "If These Walls Could Talk," Maureen O'Connell explores the theological and social significance of the movement. She calls attention to some of the most startling and powerful works it has produced and describes the narratives behind them. In doing so, O'Connell illustrates the ways that the arts can help us think about and work through the seemingly inescapable problems of urban poverty and…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword The Effect of Public Art on the Social Fabric of Communities



Introduction



Philadelphia: Spaces and Stories


From Behind the Mask



Spaces, Stories, and Method



The Ghetto as Symbol


Bibliography



Murals: Painting Philia


Peaceable Kingdom



Painting Walls



Painting Community



Painting the Signs of the Times


Bibliography



Codes: The Impasses of Poverty


Songs of Hope



Code of the Streets



Code of Whiteness



Code of Creativity


Bibliography



Prisons: From Degradation to Restoration


Forgiveness



The Complex



Forgiveness



Restoration


Bibliography



Beauty: Arts and the Body Politic


Born Again



Healing



Recovery



Flourishing


Bibliography



Holy Experiment: Religious Imagery in the Public Square


Doorways to Peace



Visual Public Theology



Visual Civil Piety



Interfaith Creativity


Bibliography


Appendix: Imagining the Signs of the Times


Theological Aesthetics and Contemporary Christian Ethics


Sources for an "Aesthetic Ethics"


Scripture


Philosophy


Tradition


Experience


What Remains Unimagined


Index