Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

by Paul M. Buhle, Mike Alewitz, Paul Buhle

Book Overview

"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world."
--Martin Sheen
The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the hidden spaces where connections between the U.S. workforce and its extended relatives across the planet are to be found.
Insurgent Images contains murals for the Teamsters, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, the Communications Workers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583670343
• ISBN13: 9781583670347
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Vivid and powerfully themed mural artworks

Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals Of Mike Alewitz by muralist and labor activist Mike Alewitz in collaboration with historian and academician Paul Buhle presents a vibrant, full-color presentation of the vivid and powerfully themed mural artworks done by Alewitz, an outspoken labor activist since the 1940s. Presenting a strong political theme of worker's rights and solidarity, capturing the imagination with its outspoken message, and offered alongside a sensible commentary that places pieces in context to the labor and humanitarian issues they illustrated, Insurgent Images is a stunning collection of art created to serve showcase and advance the cause of worker and human rights.