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Art & the Public Sphere 13.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Art & the Public Sphere 13.1!

Special Issue: ‘Painting the Town Red? The Contemporary Legacies of One Hundred Years of Public Muralism and the Left’

The present volume takes as its inspiration the centenary of the 1923–24 ‘Manifesto of the syndicate of technical workers, painters and sculptors’. Drafted by David Alfaro Siqueiros in December 1923, and published in the Syndicate’s journal El Machete in June 1924, the ‘Manifesto’ set the tone for the Mexican and international mural movements of the past century, declaring its signatories’ ‘aesthetic aim […] to socialise artistic expression [and] destroy bourgeois individualism’, repudiating ‘so-called Salon painting and all the ultra-intellectual salon art of the aristocracy’ and ‘exalt[ing] the monumental expression of art because it is public property’ (Siqueiros et al. [1924] 2012: 320).

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Aims & Scope

Art & the Public Sphere provides a platform for academics, artists, curators, art historians and theorists whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art's relation to the public sphere. This peer-reviewed journal presents a crucial examination of contemporary art's link to the public realm, offering an engaged and responsive forum for debating newly emerging developments within contemporary thinking, society and international art practice.

Issue 13.1

Opening Essay

Painting the town red? One hundred years of public muralism and the left: An introductory essay

WARREN CARTER AND BEN WIEDEL-KAUFMANN

Articles

From the Motor City to a Mural City: The legacy of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

MEGAN FLATTLEY

Putting abstraction to work: Radio station murals and mechanized labour

ROBIN OWEN JOYCE

‘I am not a child of myself’: The public murals of Malangatana Valente Ngwenya

RICHARD GRAY

‘Digging where I stand’: Researching murals in the North of Ireland. An interview with Bill Rolston