Join us at The Book Cellar to hear about Jeff Huebner's new book,
Walls of Prophecy and Protest: William Walker and the Roots of a
Revolutionary Public Art Movement. About Jeff Huebner: Arts
journalist, freelance writer, and longtime contributor to the Chicago
Reader and Public Art Review, Jeff's articles and reviews have also
appeared in ARTnews, Sculpture, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune,
and elsewhere. He is the author of Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet
and the coauthor of Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals,
Mosaics, and Sculptures and Chicago Parks Rediscovered. Huebner has
received many arts writing grants and awards. In 2017, he was an
inaugural recipient of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation award
for arts criticism and journalism. About Walls of Prophecy and
Protest: Chicago is home to more intact African American street murals
from the 1970s and '80s 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 and called the most
accomplished contemporary practitioner of the classical mural
tradition. Though his art could not have been more public, Walker
maintained a low profile during his working life and virtually
withdrew from the public eye after his retirement in 1989. Author Jeff
W. Huebner met Walker in 1990 and embarked on a series of insightful
interviews that stretched over the next two decades. Those meetings
and years of research form the basis of Walls of Prophecy and Protest,
the story of Walker's remarkable life and the movement that he
inspired. Featuring forty-three color images of Walker's work, most
long since destroyed or painted over, this handsome edition reveals
the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of
Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American
historical figures, protested social injustice, and promoted love,
respect, racial unity, and community change.
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