PUBLICATIONS & FILMS
PUBLICATIONS
2017
La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017
A 72-page illustrated exhibition catalog edited by Jane Weissman, designed by Kristin Reed, and published by Artmakers Inc. Includes introduction essay by Jane Weissman, individual photographs of the 26 La Lucha murals, and artist statements and biographies. Download the catalog here. Much of its content and more can be found at LaLuchaArtmakers.org.
2009
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City
A cultural history by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman (University Press of Mississippi). With a Foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan and an Introduction by mural historian Timothy W. Drescher. Click here for the book’s description, endorsements by Howard Zinn and Lucy Lippard, and the foreword.
2006
When Women Pursue Justice
A 48-page illustrated exhibition catalogue edited by Jane Weissman and Janet Braun-Reinitz, designed by Kristin Reed and published by Artmakers Inc. Included are an interpretive essay by Dr. Julia Watson, a key to the mural, and short biographies of the 90 women in the mural as well as the murals’ organizers and principal artists. An accompanying insert offers classroom study questions prepared by muralist/educators Rochelle Shicoff and Susan C. Harts. Click here for the key to the mural, Dr. Watson’s essay, and the biographical blurbs.
2005
Consensus, Community and Political Murals
By Jane Weissman and Janet Braun-Reinitz, Public Art Review (33 / Fall Winter, 20-23)
This article is cited in “Locating the Politics of Contemporary Public Art: Towards a New Historiography,” Afroditi Climis Davos, 2009
2001
The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators
By Janet Braun-Reinitz and Rochelle Shicoff, Chrystal Productions
1993
Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals
Edited by Eva Sperling Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, University of New Mexico Press
1977
Toward A People’s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement
By Eva Cockcroft, John Weber and Jim Cockcroft, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Reissued in 1998 by University of New Mexico Press with Foreword by Lucy Lippard, Introduction by Ben Keppel and Afterword by Timothy W. Drescher
FILMS
2013
Lorca Murals Cinematic
Two visual poems by Francesc Sitges-Sardà about the four Federico García Lorca Murals (2011-2013): “Sleepless City” and the July 7th “Walking Tour of The Federico García Lorca Murals” led by poet and Lorca scholar Edward Hirsch and professor emeritus of Hispanic literatures Electa Arenal. Both videos can be viewed here.
2009-13
The Restoration of Homage to Seurat: La Grande Jatte in Harlem
Thomas W. Campbell, director/editor. A series of six videos with interviews of the artists who restored Eva Cockcroft’s 1986 mural. Janet Braun Reinitz, Harriet Irgang Alden, Rochelle Shicoff, Maria Dominguez, and Jane Weissman.
2006
The Women of Nostrand and Greene
A 1-hour documentary film by Dave Reinitz, H2F Comedy Productions. A 2:47 excerpt can be viewed here.
1985
La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues
A half-hour video by John Hunt about the creation and dedication of the 26 La Lucha murals. The video can be viewed here.
1984
You Know… The Struggle
A 16-minute documentary by Ainslie Binder, Silviana Calderero & Sarah Goodyear (with photographs by Philip Pocock) looks at many murals on the Lower East Side and includes an interview with Artmakers co-founder Eva Cockcroft. The film can be viewed here.
