Toward a people's art : the contemporary mural movement / Eva Cockcroft, John Weber, and Jim Cockcroft ; foreword by Jean Charlot.

The 'Select Bibliography' is delineated into three sections: 'manuals', 'Mexican murals and WPA', and 'contemporary'.

A 'Select list of mural information, resource and workshop centers (by city)' can be found on pages 285-286.

This resource contains a list of illustrations (pages vi-xi) that is delineated into three sections: plates and figures. These plates which follow page 164 and figures illustrate (in color and black and white) the People's Painters and Artes Guadalupanos de Aztlán among other noted mural collectives. Additionally, this resource contains an extensive list of photo credits (page xi-xiii) noting the work of Julie Smith and Gilberto Romero among others.

"Eva Cockcroft is a member of 'People's Painters of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the author of several articles. John Weber is Director of the Community Mural Project of the Chicago Mural Group, a multinational coalition of Black, Latino, Asian and white artists. James Cockcroft is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Livingston College, Rutgers University, and the author of several books and articles." --from book jacket

Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 280-284).

1. Beginnings -- 2. Historical background -- 3.The mural scene : an overview -- 4. Mural painting as a human process : the community -- 5. Mural painting as a human process : those who paint --

6. The Chicago mural group / by John Weber --

7. Cityarts workshop : out of the gallery and into the streets / by Susan Shapiro-Kiok --

8. People's Painters / by Eva Cockcroft --

9. Artes Guadalupanos de Aztlán / by Geronimo Garduńo --

10. Funding -- 11. Aesthetics -- 12. Continuations and perspectives.

"Written by two artists who became muralists by a political sociologist, this is the first book to describe in detail the community-based mural movement, which has produced many hundreds of large scale wall paintings in less than a decade throughout the United States and Canada. The authors got into mural painting as a response to the times -to the developing social movements around them- out of a felt need to break out of the isolation of the studio, to make direct contact as artists with the oppressed, to make a public statement as artists in the only forum that then seemed viable: the streets. 'Toward a People's Art' is an attempt to assess the authors' experience and that of their friends in the contemporary mural renaissance, for the authors became transformed by their intense involvement in the movement-not only into mural painters, but also transformed in their view of themselves and their neighbors, and in their view of art and of the artist's place in society. It is the authors' hope that this book will help bring an understanding and appreciation of murals and of the contemporary mural movement to a mass audience of those who are generally interested in art and social change."