Name/Title
Faith RinggoldEntry/Object ID
N9500.R56.A4 2022Description
"Lauded internationally for her narrative quilts and her colorful paintings of African American life, New York artist Faith Ringgold has explored and sabotaged perceptions of identity and gender inequality through her experiences in the feminist and civil rights movements. This catalog is published for her international traveling exhibition organized by the Serpentine, London, which traveled to Bildmuseet, Sweden, in 2020 and opens at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, in 2021. Focusing on several series of paintings, story quilts and political posters from the 1960s to today, the book includes two texts by Michele Wallace that interweave Ringgold's biography with the chronology of works in the exhibition. In an extensive interview, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ringgold discuss her life in Harlem, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, her inspirations and her passion for storytelling and exercising her freedom of speech. The book also documents the expanded scope of the exhibition at the Glenstone Museum, which includes key examples of Ringgold's soft sculpture and rare experiments with pure abstraction." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
Search Terms
african american quilts, african american women artists, artist monographs, politics in artLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Faith Ringgold, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michele Wallace, Emily Wei Rales, Melissa BlanchflowerPublisher
Serpentine Galleries, Koenig Books Ltd.Date Published
2022ISBN
9780999802960LCCN
1256542379Notes
Length: 255