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About: Mural is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1144 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5050 citations.


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24 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions as discussed by the authors, which provided crucial visual evidence for both the reception of Greek culture and the interconnected ethical and aesthetic values of art in the Roman world.
Abstract: In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural ensembles functioned as a meta-pictorial reflection on the practice and status of painting itself. This phenomenon provides crucial visual evidence for both the reception of Greek culture and the interconnected ethical and aesthetic values of art in the Roman world. Roman meta-pictures, this book reveals, not only navigated social debates on the production and consumption of art, but also created space on the Roman wall for new modes of expression relating to pictorial genres, the role of medium in artistic practice, and the history of painting. Richly illustrated, the volume will be important for anyone interested in the social, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of artworks, in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond.

58 citations

Dissertation
28 Aug 2014
TL;DR: The Sturdy-Stone Centre's monumental ceramic mural project is the subject of a case study that examines its agency as discussed by the authors, arguing the decorative and ornamental aspects of these murals transmit intellectual content through their sensuality and visual and material delight.
Abstract: The modernist Sturdy-Stone Centre’s monumental ceramic mural project is the subject of this case study that examines its agency. Initiated in 1975 by the Saskatchewan government for their new Saskatoon office building it was commissioned in two stages and completed by 1983. Six designer/makers executed two exterior and six interior relief murals in a variety of styles, making this the largest and arguably most eclectic ensemble created by studio ceramicists for any building in Canada. Despite local interest at the time of its reception this remarkable project has remained at the periphery of art, ceramic, craft, and architectural discourses. To address the agency of these murals throughout their lives this study adopts an interdisciplinary approach that promotes their integration into architectural, ceramic, sculpture, and craft histories. It argues the decorative and ornamental aspects of these murals transmit intellectual content through their sensuality and visual and material delight. The first section, “A Social and Material Complex,” presents an overview of the development of this unique project as group formations, methodologically using a combination of sociology and material culture. These groups comprise the government with its attendant political and social agendas, arts and crafts organizations and their aesthetic concerns, and the physical unit created by the building and the murals. A particular concern is the implication of ceramics as the designated mural material. The second section, “The Lives of the Murals,” looks at the biography of each mural, arguing they emerged from and contributed to political and cultural ideologies active in Saskatchewan, including discourses of multiculturalism and socialism. Each chapter combines the biographies of the murals with those of their makers, from their commissioning to their installation. An important aspect in each discussion is the co-constitution of the murals and their makers, as suggested by a postphenomenological approach. This involves taking into account a variety of group formations involving, among other things, materials, technology, tools, architectural spaces, humans, and ideas. As agents these murals promote the professionalism of ceramic practices and dialogically address issues touching the rural and urban, local and global, vernacular and modern, and fine art and folk craft.

56 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on what happens when mural paintings in Northern Ireland come to the end of their effective lifespan and explore a number of reasons for their transformation, removal and disappearance.
Abstract: This article focuses on what happens when mural paintings in Northern Ireland come to the end of their effective lifespan. It begins from a perspective of mural painting as a socially constructed artefact, which is involved in dynamic interaction with the local environment. But while most work on this subject area has focused on the reasons why paintings are created in the first place and/or on the meanings of their symbolic content, the article analyses what happens when the murals are no longer of any social interest and explores a number of reasons for their transformation, removal and disappearance. It defines a framework of seven categories: retirement, redundancy, recycling, redevelopment, reclamation, remonstration and restoration that can be used to explore how and why mural paintings that have reached the end of their life are removed or replaced.

53 citations

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05 May 1962-BMJ
TL;DR: This study of the relationships between serum mucoprotein levels, plasma fibrinolytic activity, and body build in subjects who have sustained a cardiac infarction must be regarded as a preliminary survey and further investigation is required to elucidate fully these relationships and to evaluate their importance against the background of coronary-artery disease.
Abstract: activity would have produced substantially the same subgroups. It should also be pointed out that if the mean plasma fibrinolytic activity were calculated for all the post-cardiac-infarction subjects it would not differ greatly from the mean obtained from a group of normal subjects. This would agree with the findings of Nestel (1960), Merskey et al. (1960), and Goldrick (1961). This calculation, however, obscures the clear differences which exist between the two subgroups. It would appear that subgroup B consists of subjects whose fibrinolytic activity and mucoprotein levels are essentially normal, while the subjects in subgroup A, with raised mucoproteins and low fibrinolytic activity, have some metabolic disturbance resulting in these and possibly other changes. Goldrick (1961) observed that plasma fibrinolytic activity decreased with increasing body bulk in both healthy and atherosclerotic Australians. Our finding that a decreased height: weight ratio is associated with low fibrinolytic activity tends to confirm this observation. The measurements used in this study to assess body build, however, are insufficient to determine whether the variations are due to differences of somatotype or of nutritional status. From the finding of previous workers that the serum mucoprotein level is raised in atherosclerosis (Antonini and Salvini, 1957; Schwartz and Gilmore, 1958) it might be inferred that the subjects in subgroup A have more generalized atherosclerosis. Alternatively the subjects in subgroup B may have a different type of coronaryartery disease, since the parameters used in this study do not differentiate them from healthy subjects. This study of the relationships between serum mucoprotein levels, plasma fibrinolytic activity, and body build in subjects who have sustained a cardiac infarction must be regarded as a preliminary survey. It is clear that further investigation is required to elucidate fully these relationships and to evaluate their importance against the background of coronary-artery disease.

47 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023132
2022287
202149
202048
201956
201851