Faith Ringgold (born 1930) is famed today as the progenitor of the African-American story-quilt revival of the late 1970s, but her story begins much earlier, with her American People Seriesof 1963. These once influential paintings, and the many political posters and murals she created throughout the 1960s, have largely disappeared from view, being routinely omitted from art historical discourse over the past 40 years. American People, Black Lightis the first examination of Ringgold's earliest radical and pioneering explorations of race, gender and class. Undertaken to address the social upheavals of the 1960s, these are the works through which Ringgold found her political voice. American People, Black Lightoffers not only clear insight into a critical moment in American history, but also a clear account of what it meant to be an African American woman making her way as an artist at that time.
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This volume presents selections from the highly-respected Cosby collection of African American art. Their introductions elaborate on their strong belief that African American families should themselves seek to preserve their...
John Wilson: A Retrospective : an Exhibition
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Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time
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In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms.
250 Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography
Catalog for the exhibition of Hank Willis Thomas' work entitled OPP: Other People's Property curated by Kalia Brooks for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, January 25 - March 8, 2012