Radical Response to a ‘High-Tech’ World: Contemporary American Street Murals

The author discusses the American street mural movement in general as background to a critical evaluation of four murals. The major portion of the article is a critique of these four street murals, which, it is argued, are radical antitechnological statements in response to a high-technology world. These works make statements on the role of high technology in food production, the power of large corporations, and the possibility of nuclear war.