Insurgent Images
Subtitle: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: August 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781583670347
Subjects: Individual artists; Landscape art & architecture; Painting & paintings; Political; Individual Artist; Painting In Specific Media; Public Art; Biography / Autobiography; Art; Mural painting and decoration, American; Labor unions and art; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Art / Design / Decorative; MURAL PAINTING AND DECORATION; Alewitz, Mike; Politics in art; Themes, motives; United States; 20th century; Mural painting and decoration,
Description: "The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz follows the traditions of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros as well as the early painters of the Russian Revolution. With a demonstrated blend of artistic integrity and political commitment, Insurgent Images combines grand historical themes with enlivening detail, to illustrate the interplay between personality and event.

Alewitz brings to this tradition his own rich sense of irony, humor, and fantasy to illuminate the hidden spaces where connections between the workforce of the U.S. and its extended relatives across the planet are to be found."--BOOK JACKET.