Death of a Mural

Bibliographic Data

ID2390856
AuthorsJonathan Mccormick (University of Ulster, Derry, UK, corresponding author), Neil Jarman (Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast, UK)
Year2005
Volume10
Issue1
Pages49-71
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183505050094
OpenAlexW2148639452
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited8

This article focuses on what happens when mural paintings in Northern Ireland come to the end of their effective lifespan. It begins from a perspective of mural painting as a socially constructed artefact, which is involved in dynamic interaction with the local environment. But while most work on this subject area has focused on the reasons why paintings are created in the first place and/or on the meanings of their symbolic content, the article analyses what happens when the murals are no longer of any social interest and explores a number of reasons for their transformation, removal and disappearance. It defines a framework of seven categories: retirement, redundancy, recycling, redevelopment, reclamation, remonstration and restoration that can be used to explore how and why mural paintings that have reached the end of their life are removed or replaced

Aesthetics · Art · Mural · Painting · Political science · Redevelopment · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · Public Spaces through Art

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