Books on Topics Related to the City Science Exhibit
Bodanis, David. The Secret House: 24 Hours in the
Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Days
and Nights, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1986.
Gibbons, Gail. How a House Is Built, Holiday
House, New York, NY, 1996.
Kerr, Daisy. Keeping Clean: A Very Peculiar History,
Franklin Watts, New York, NY, 1995.
Kitchen, Bert. And So They Build, Candlewick
Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Macaulay, David. The New Way Things Work, Houghton
Mifflin Co., Boston, MA, 1998.
Ordish, George. The Living
American House: The 350-Year Story of a Home—An
Ecological History, William Morrow & Company,
Inc., New York, 1981.
Vandervort, Don. Home Magazine's How Your House Works,
Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1997.
Books on Murals
Drescher, Timothy W. San Francisco Bay Area Murals:
Communities Create Their Muses 1904-1997, Pogo Press,
San Francisco, CA, 1998.
Dunitz, Robin J. and Prigoff, James. Painting the
Towns: Murals of California, RJD Enterprises, Los
Angeles, CA, 1997.
Dunitz, Robin J. and Prigoff, James. Walls of Heritage,
Walls of Pride: African American Murals, Pomegranate
Communications, Rohnert Park, CA, C2000.
Elkins, James. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the
Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity, Routledge,
New York, NY, 1999.
Gude, Olivia and Huebner, Jeff. Urban Art Chicago:
A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures,
Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2000.
Gray, Mary Lackritz. A Guide to Chicago's Murals,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2001.
Jewett, Masha Zakheim. Coit Tower, San Francisco:
Its History and Art, Volcano Press, San Francisco,
CA, 1983.
Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-Wall America: Post-Office
Murals in the Great Depression, University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2000.
Silberstein-Storfer, Muriel and Jones, Mablen. Doing
Art Together: Discovering the joys of appreciating and
creating art as taught at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art's famous parent-child workshop, Simon and Schuster,
New York, NY, 1982.
Rochfort, Desmond. Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera,
Siqueiros, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993.
Rolston, Bill. Drawing Support: Murals in the North
of Ireland, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast,
Ireland, 1992.
Web Sites
Chicago: The City in Art
The Art Institute of Chicago's collaborative project
to provide online photos, background information, and
a teacher-written classroom lesson for each of eleven
public school murals—many created during the Depression.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/mural_project/index.html
The Diego Rivera Mural Project
A beautiful site to share the famous mural at the City
College of San Francisco. Includes a mural key, zoom
function, and interpretive materials.
http://www.riveramural.org/rivera/home.html
MuralArt.com
A private site, supported by the book Painting the
Towns (above), that celebrates mural art in California
and that divides murals into California, Los Angeles,
Jewish, and African-American categories.
http://www.muralart.com/
Social and Public Art Resource Center
A southern-California non-profit that promotes community
expression and student involvement in the production,
preservation, and presentation of murals.
http://www.sparcmurals.org/home.html
The Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum, Murals Page
A site that presents many of the artists murals for
viewing, but interpretive information is limited.
http://www.diegorivera.com/murals/index.html
New Deal/WPA Art Project
A nice history of WPA murals that includes coverage
of murals in Illinois, California, Texas and Ohio among
others. The site includes an excellent page of links
to artist biography, conservation, and research sites.
http://www.wpamurals.com/index.htm
Quotes
“The ideal of happiness has always taken material
form in the house, whether cottage or castle. It stands
for permanence and separation from the world.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Where thou art, that, is Home.”
Emily Dickinson
“The economic and technological triumphs of the
last few years have not solved as many problems as we
thought they would and, in fact, have brought us new
problems we did not foresee."
Henry Ford II
“The earth is given as a
common for [people] to labor and live in.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Art is an effort to create, beside the real world,
a more human world.”
André Maurois
“When we tug at a single
thing in Nature, we find it attached to the rest of
the World.”
John Muir
“Man must go back to nature for information.”
Thomas Paine
“Science is nothing but perception.”
Plato
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural
resources as assets which it must turn over to the next
generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Home life is no more natural
to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Perhaps the truth depends
on a walk around the lake.”
Wallace Stevens
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got
a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau
“Lanscape shapes culture.”
Terry Tempest Williams
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