Abstract

The first two chapters contain an exceedingly condensed statement of the limitations of mural painting and the history of its development in Europe, - a background for the real theme, which commences in the fairs chapter with an outline of the beginnings of mural painting in America. Chapter IV treats the Chicago World's Fair as an epoch-making event in the art, and develops the history from that point to the present day. The existing examples of mural painting in America are then divided into four classes, for convenience of description. Chapter V deals with those paintings having a religious theme, Chapter VI with those whose theme is a secular story. Chapter VIII comprises those paintings where the symbolic element rather predominates over the decorative, and Chapter VIII those in which the decorative element is all important and the symbolism subordinate. Chapter IX draws general conclusions.

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Print version in library: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b1438872~S2

Author's Department

Graduate School of Architecture

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

5-1-1912

Language

English (en)

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