{"id":2491,"date":"2017-08-11T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:01:52","slug":"marx-on-the-wall-muralism-and-anglo-american-exchange-during-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/08\/11\/marx-on-the-wall-muralism-and-anglo-american-exchange-during-the-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marx on the Wall\u2019: Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange during the 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2492\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2492\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-560x421.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-260x196.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London.-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/08\/Marx-Memorial-Library-and-Workers\u2019-College-London..jpg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viscount (Jack) Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, Worker of the Future Upsetting the Economic Chaos of the Present, 1935, Fresco. Marx Memorial Library and Workers\u2019 College, London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Jody Patterson, Associate Professor of Art History, Plymouth University, is a specialist on art and politics d<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\">uring the mid-20<\/span><sup style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\">th<\/sup><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\"> century. Her research explores mural painting and the democratisation of culture through public art. Whilst her work to date has focused on developments in the United States, she has now addressed the relations between America and Britain during the 1930s. Under the co-editorship of Professor David Peters Corbett, Director for the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, and Professor Martin Hammer, University\u00a0 of Kent, Patterson was invited to contribute to a Special Edition of <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/research\/publications\/tate-papers\/27\"><em>Tate Papers<\/em><\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\"> dedicated to exchanges between British and American artists in the years 1880\u20131980. Patterson responds to the theme of transatlanticism and its cultural effects through an analysis of English artists\u2019 support for socially-engaged mural painting and details their collaborative initiatives with their American counte<\/span>rparts. Patterson\u2019s essay is the latest in a series of publications examining public mural painting during the interwar period as a means of expanding extant narratives of the history of modern art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jody Patterson, Associate Professor of Art History, Plymouth University, is a specialist on art and politics during the mid-20th century. Her research explores mural painting and the democratisation of culture through public art. Whilst her work to date has focused on developments in the United States, she has now addressed the relations between America&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/08\/11\/marx-on-the-wall-muralism-and-anglo-american-exchange-during-the-1930s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Marx on the Wall\u2019: Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange during the 1930s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[87,89,422,330,575],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-art-history","tag-jody-patterson","tag-publication","tag-tate","tag-tate-britain","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}