Born in the twenties' explosive revolutionary energy and culminating in the social consciousness of the sixties, the Mexican Mural movement represents one of the most powerful and significant achievements in public art during the twentieth century. This book follows the careers of the three most prominent artists of the movement José Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. This book traces the lives and murals of these three legendary artists from their early childhoods, through the bloody years of the Mexican revolution to the years of their artistic maturity.

With stunning colour reproductions of all the major murals, both those in Mexico and in the United States (where all three artists worked in the 1930's), the book locates the murals in their cultural background and explores the artists' achievements within the political framework of Mexican history and politics.

Over a period of more than twenty five years the print making division of the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta has become recognized internationally as a centre of printmaking. The exhibition Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms and Materialities , which was exhibited in London and Tokyo, brought together the best examples over those twenty five years of the work of the graduates from this departments renowned graduate program. This catalogue to the exhibition , which was curated by Desmond Rochfort contains a lead essay by him entitled Printmaking, Technologies and the Culture of the Reproducible Image.