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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 contains a varying number of Chapters (38 in all) divided into numerous Subheads, is illustrated with about 300 reproductions and 100 site diagrams, and concludes with an selected bibliography. Electronic publications 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 [ooo] 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.

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www.muralinamerica.com