Muralnomad: The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 19271957,Used

Muralnomad: The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 19271957,Used

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In this fascinating and generously illustrated book, Romy Golan explores mural and murallike works in Europe from the 1920s to the 1950s, beginning with Monets installation of the Nymphas at the Muse de lOrangerie in Paris, and ending dramatically with Le Corbusiers huge tapestries in Chandigarh, India.Many artists and critics looked to the mural as a corrective to the ills of painterly Modernism: the disruption of the pictorial field at the hands of Cubism and other avantgarde practices; the commodification of painting through the market for easel paintings; and more generally the alienation of man and the anomie of art in the modern condition.At the same time it was clear that a return to the mural format would never be more than an anachronistic and futile gesture. This book is therefore about mural paintings that are not convinced they belong on walls: such strange objects as mosaics designed to be disassembled; paintings that resemble largescale photographs, or photomurals; and tapestries that functioned as portable woolen walls. The author argues that the uncertain relation of these objects to the wall is symptomatic of the dilemmas that troubled European art, artists, and architects during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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