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Written by two muralists and a sociologists the book documents the community based mural movement in the late 60s and early 70s in Canada and the USA.
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Book, Eva Cockcroft, John Weber, James Cockcroft, Towards a People's Art. The Contemporary Mural Movement, 1977
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Towards a People's Art. The Contemporary Mural Movement
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