Title:
Patriotism in Everyday Life
Artist:
Diana Berek, Chiara Padgett, Juan Carlos Perez (Chicago, Italy)
Collection:
Mile of Murals
Address:
6941 N. Glenwood Ave.
Description:
“The core of our understanding of Patriotism in Everyday Life resides in this culturally negotiated understanding of “freedom”, i.e. in the perceptions, contradictions, questions, problems and issues that for more than 200 years continue to be challenged and re-defined. It is embedded in a persistent struggle to define and achieve freedom. It is distinctly opposed to casting American values in bellicose chauvinism, or a belief in national superiority. The American narrative is one of a deep striving toward personal success and individual freedom within a social, economic and political fabric of shared liberty and rights. The movement towards these ideals has been rocky, sometimes heroic and enlightened, sometimes ugly and violent, but the vision continues to inspire.”
Date Completed:
2011
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