Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold / editors, Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska with Melissa Larner.

For more than five decades, Ringgold has consistently challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements. As cultural assumptions and prejudices persist, her work retains its contemporary resonance. Focusing on...

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Main Author: Ringgold, Faith
Corporate Author: Glenstone (Museum) (host insitution.)
Other Authors: Blanchflower, Melissa (Editor), Grabowska, Natalia (Editor), Larner, Melissa (Editor), Wallace, Michele, Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Koenig Books : Serpentine Galleries, ©2019.
Subjects:
Ringgold, Faith > Exhibitions.
Politics in art.
African American quilts > Exhibitions.
African Americans in art.
Political posters, American > Exhibitions.
African American women artists > exhibitions.
African American art > exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
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Summary:For more than five decades, Ringgold has consistently challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements. As cultural assumptions and prejudices persist, her work retains its contemporary resonance. Focusing on different series that she has created over the past 50 years, this survey of her work includes paintings, story quilts and political posters made during the Black Power movement.
Item Description:This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Faith Ringgold" held at Serpentine Gallery, London, June 6-September 8, 2019; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, 2020.
Physical Description:149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783960986331
3960986335
9781908617576
1908617578

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