Walls of Prophecy and Protest: William Walker and the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement

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Walls of Prophecy and Protest: William Walker and the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art MovementChicago is home to more intact African American street murals from the 1970s and 1980s than any other U. S. city. Among Chicago's greatest muralists is the legendary William "Bill" Walker (1927 2011), compared by art historians to Diego Rivera. Francis O'Connor, America's foremost mural historian, called Walker the most accomplished contemporary practitioner of the classical mural tradition that runs from Giotto to Rivera. Though his art could not

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