The murals of revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992

David Kunzle

In the years following Nicaragua's 1979 Sandinista Revolution, more than three hundred murals were created by Nicaraguan and international artist brigades from over twenty different countries. David Kunzle was profoundly moved by the aesthetic and political power of these murals, and when he saw that they were being destroyed after the Sandinistas were voted out in 1990, he resolved to document them in all their visual splendor and stylistic variety. Today many of Nicaragua's best murals have been obliterated, and Kunzle's book may be the only record of them. About eighty percent of the murals are reproduced here, many with extensive commentary. Artistic styles from the primitivist to the highly sophisticated are represented; themes include literacy, health, children and family, and always the Revolution. Kunzle outlines the historical conditions in Nicaragua that gave rise to the...

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