Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz
"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world."
—Martin Sheen
The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the hidden spaces where connections between the U.S. workforce and its extended relatives across the planet are to be found.
Insurgent Images contains murals for the Teamsters, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, the Communications Workers, United Electrical Workers, the United Farm Workers, as well as the Highlander Folk School and other labor institutions. Other works respond to dramatic events such as the 1984 strike of P-9 workers in Austin, Minnesota, the 1991 rebellion in Los Angeles, and the tragedy at Chernobyl. Altogether, this collection presents an inspiring artistic reading of our epoch.

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Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz
"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world."
—Martin Sheen
The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the hidden spaces where connections between the U.S. workforce and its extended relatives across the planet are to be found.
Insurgent Images contains murals for the Teamsters, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, the Communications Workers, United Electrical Workers, the United Farm Workers, as well as the Highlander Folk School and other labor institutions. Other works respond to dramatic events such as the 1984 strike of P-9 workers in Austin, Minnesota, the 1991 rebellion in Los Angeles, and the tragedy at Chernobyl. Altogether, this collection presents an inspiring artistic reading of our epoch.

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Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

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"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world."
—Martin Sheen
The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the hidden spaces where connections between the U.S. workforce and its extended relatives across the planet are to be found.
Insurgent Images contains murals for the Teamsters, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, the Communications Workers, United Electrical Workers, the United Farm Workers, as well as the Highlander Folk School and other labor institutions. Other works respond to dramatic events such as the 1984 strike of P-9 workers in Austin, Minnesota, the 1991 rebellion in Los Angeles, and the tragedy at Chernobyl. Altogether, this collection presents an inspiring artistic reading of our epoch.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583670347
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 08/07/2002
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Mike Alewitz teaches mural painting at Central Connecticut State Universityand is the artistic director of the Labor Art and Mural Project.

Paul Buhle, retired Brown UniversitySenior Lecturer, has authored and edited more than forty books on the American and Caribbean Left, and is the editor of more than a dozen nonfiction graphic novels.

Table of Contents

Forewordxi
Introduction: Visual Radicalism in the United States and the Mural Art of Mike Alewitz1
Chapter 1The Education of a Radical Artist19
Chapter 2P-9, The Austin Mural35
Chapter 3Labor Solidarity (for Artists Too!)49
Chapter 4Lit By LAMP73
Chapter 5Visions of a Different Future99
Postscript128
Notes140
Acknowledgments142
Selected Muralography144
Index147

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