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Faith Ringgold's Art in the 1960s
This is the book, which accompanies the exhibition "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s," produced by the Neuberger Museum, the text for which I wrote and annotated with great pleasure. It will be possible once again to see this work of the great African American artist Faith Ringgold at the ACA Galleries in Chelsea as of the beginning of February of 2013. The dark cover is supplied by the first of Faith Ringgold's Black Paintings, "Big Black," (somewhat under the influence of her admiration for Ad Reinhardt's Black Paintings and the Black Pride Movement at the time) painted in 1967. I was 15 then, living in Harlem with Mom and Dad Faith and Burdette Ringgold, and very much caught up in the excitement of "black is beautiful," which I have written about elsewhere: Dark Designs and Visual Culture, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classics), Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (New edition) (Haymarket Series). This is an exhibition catalogue, an excellent one. The book includes images from all of the works produced by Ringgold then. The back cover is supplied by the first of her paintings in the American People Series, "Between Friends," which the Neuberger Museum bought to have as its very own. None of this work had ever been bought until this recent exhibition which opened in 2011 at SUNY Purchase. It has also travelled to the Spelman College Cosby Museum in Atlanta and the Miami Museum where the originator of the project at the Neuberger, Thom Collins, (with the able assistance of Senior Curator Tracy Fitzpatrick) is currently director. Will be using this work in my class on Black Visual Culture and for the book on the subject that I hope will soon follow.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012
Faith Ringgold's Art in the 1960s
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012
This is the book, which accompanies the exhibition "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s," produced by the Neuberger Museum, the text for which I wrote and annotated with great pleasure. It will be possible once again to see this work of the great African American artist Faith Ringgold at the ACA Galleries in Chelsea as of the beginning of February of 2013. The dark cover is supplied by the first of Faith Ringgold's Black Paintings, "Big Black," (somewhat under the influence of her admiration for Ad Reinhardt's Black Paintings and the Black Pride Movement at the time) painted in 1967. I was 15 then, living in Harlem with Mom and Dad Faith and Burdette Ringgold, and very much caught up in the excitement of "black is beautiful," which I have written about elsewhere: [[ASIN:0822334135 Dark Designs and Visual Culture]], [[ASIN:1859842968 Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classics)]], [[ASIN:B006LWFU6K Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (New edition) (Haymarket Series)]]. This is an exhibition catalogue, an excellent one. The book includes images from all of the works produced by Ringgold then. The back cover is supplied by the first of her paintings in the American People Series, "Between Friends," which the Neuberger Museum bought to have as its very own. None of this work had ever been bought until this recent exhibition which opened in 2011 at SUNY Purchase. It has also travelled to the Spelman College Cosby Museum in Atlanta and the Miami Museum where the originator of the project at the Neuberger, Thom Collins, (with the able assistance of Senior Curator Tracy Fitzpatrick) is currently director. Will be using this work in my class on Black Visual Culture and for the book on the subject that I hope will soon follow.
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012
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