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THE MURAL
IN AMERICA
Wall Painting in the
United States
from Prehistory to the Present
by Francis V. O'Connor, Ph.D.
MAJOR HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MURAL
IS PUBLISHED AS A WEBSITE
GO TO:
www.muralinamerica.com
March 2010
The independent
historian of American art, Dr.
Francis V. O'Connor, announces the
electronic publication of his
long-awaited history of mural
painting in the United States.
Dr. O'Connor states the following
about his book:
“The purpose of this electronic
publication is to make available to
scholars, students, muralists,
artists and the general public - at
no charge - the text of a book that
fills a gap in our understanding of
the development of American art and
culture. Being readable, citable,
searchable and augmentable, my
ambition is that this book shall
grow over the years - and inspire
more scholarly research in the field
of the American mural that this book
opens up for the first time.”
With this publication of The
Mural In America: Wall Painting in
the United State from Prehistory to
the Present, Dr. O'Connor tops
off his nearly 45-year-long career
as an art historian. Previously he
has, with eight books and over one
hundred essays, documented the
Abstract Expressionist artist,
Jackson Pollock, opened up the field
of the New Deal art projects with
his early research and publications,
established the utility of
psychodynamic theory as a vehicle
for the interpretation of art - and
now has presented a survey of
American wall painting with the
electronic publication of the
Mural in America.
For more information about Dr.
O'Connor, and his complete
bibliography - GO TO:
<<
http://www.fvoconnorsbooks.com/index.htm
>> Contact at:
FVOC@muralinamerica.com
NOTE: This book is not an “E-book”
to be downloaded into a hand-held
mechanism like a Kindle or iPad. It
is a website that is a book,
handsomely designed by Steve Kennedy
<<
skennedy@somewhereinamerica.com
>> to offer in itself,
with emphasis on its being readable,
searchable, citable and augmentable,
all the services of a published
monograph.
Dr. O'Connor's book, The Mural in
America, is divided into nine
parts:
Part One - The Mural as an Art Form
Part Two - Native American Murals
Part Three - Colonial and Early
American Murals
Part Four - The Murals of the United States Capitol
Part Five - The Academic Mural
Movement
Part Six - The Transition to
Modernism
Part Seven - The 1930s Mural
Movement
Part Eight - The Mural as Private
Act and Public Art
Part Nine - The Community Mural
Movement and Postmodernism
Each part is illustrated with about 300 reproductions and 100 site diagrams, and concludes with a selected bibliography. Electronic publication permits the book to be used in three ways. It can be read scrolling down part by part, it can be consulted with the aid of an analytic index, and it can be searched globally for all references to a specific artist or general idea. Over time, it will also be open to the addition of new textural and bibliographic material. Its Appendix contains a valuable generational chronology of American muralists from ca. 1750 to the present.
Dr. O'Connor began this book in the early 1980s after earlier doing extensive research into the New Deal visual art programs of the 1930s, and the Abstract Expressionist artist, Jackson Pollock - and realizing that there was no book about American murals. He undertook this study with the help of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United State Capitol Historical Society, and the National Humanities Center. Some thirty years later, realizing that the manuscript was not going to be published under present economic conditions, that it was beyond the capacity of the “books-on demand” system of self publishing - and that “paper is the papyrus of the 21st century” anyway - he decided to turn it into a website publication.
The purpose of this book is to get scholars and students of American art and culture in all fields to see wall painting and its unique capacity to document historical situations by virtue of its intended permanence and site-specificity, as a wide window into the past by the very fact that its scale and intentions transcend the aperture of the easel painting.
The writing of this book has been difficult, since there is virtually no literature on the major muralists and their walls. What literature there is often uneven and dated. It is Dr. O'Connor's hope that this publication will prompt scholars and their students to start a massive research endeavor about wall paintings. Indeed, every item with three black dots [...] after it in the text ought to prompt some scholar's monograph, and his or her students' M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations. Writers of biographies and art books will find many important artists in need of documentation about their lives and works.
