If These Walls Could Talk - O'Connell, Maureen H
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If These Walls Could Talk explores the theological and social significance of Philadelphias community muralism movement, a groundswell of public art that is transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the Mural Capital of the World. It calls attention to the narratives behind some of the citys 2,800 wall-sized canvasesin ghettos and on schools, on mosques and in jails, in courthouses and along overpassesin order to illustrate the way in which the arts can help us to travel the emotional, intellectual, and relational distance necessary to arrive at creative responses to the seemingly inescapable problems of urban poverty.…mehr

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If These Walls Could Talk explores the theological and social significance of Philadelphias community muralism movement, a groundswell of public art that is transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the Mural Capital of the World. It calls attention to the narratives behind some of the citys 2,800 wall-sized canvasesin ghettos and on schools, on mosques and in jails, in courthouses and along overpassesin order to illustrate the way in which the arts can help us to travel the emotional, intellectual, and relational distance necessary to arrive at creative responses to the seemingly inescapable problems of urban poverty.
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Maureen H. O'Connell is associate professor of theology at Fordham University. She is the author of If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (Liturgical Press, 2012) and Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization(Orbis, 2009).