Untitled

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Untitled

Entry/Object ID

2018.07

Description

Skeletons & heads in distorted U.S flag (b&w)

Artwork Details

Medium

Lithograph on paper

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum; Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Made/Created

Artist

Hogu, Barbara Jones

Date made

1968

Ethnography

Notes

US Chicago

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

civil rights, political concepts, social science concepts, pride, human behavior, psychological concepts, flags, identifying artifacts, information artifacts, information forms (objects), race (group of people), culture-related concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Objects Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; sheet

Width

25-3/4 in

Length

20-1/4 in

Exhibition

Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, 1968-1975

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Racial strife and oppression of Black people in the United States were a central focus in Jones-Hogu's early prints. In this black and white lithograph, she presents a riff on the American flag. By substituting stars with the recognizable silhouettes of hooded Klu Klux Klan members, Jones-Hogu visually asserts that white supremacy is woven into the fabric of American ideology, as symbolized by the flag. In these images, the impact of racism is evident through interchanging pattern of skeletons and Black men in profile, alluding to centuries of racial violence.