Author: Ringgold, FaithDuring the 60s and 70s, Ringgold, a dedicated and impassioned civil rights advocate, established her voice as a feminist and as part of the Black Arts Movement. Her influential work expressed her knowledge of art history and contemporary art, as well as her activism. Alongside reproductions of works made between 1967 and 1981, this title provides an overview of Ringgold's seminal artistic and activist work, and its historical context during these years, including accounts by the artist herself.Spanning mediums such as painting, cut paper works, posters, collage and textile art, the works presented in this publication foreground the artist’s explicitly political pieces, for which she deployed new material and formal processes, and developed a radical aesthetics and vocabulary.Organised chronologically, the book allows readers to retrace the artist’s foundational creative approaches to contemporaneous social, political and artistic questions. It includes illustrations of individual artworks together with previously unpublished work and archival materials.Faith Ringgold is a painter, mixed-media sculptor, performance artist, teacher and writer best known for her narrative quilts. In 2020, the New York Times described her as an artist “who has confronted race relations in this country from every angle, led protests to diversify museums decades ago, and even went to jail for an exhibition she organised.” Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Ringgold lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey.ISBN 9783948318130. Weiss Berlin . hb. 104 pages. 47 colour ills. 29 x 21 cm.available
