Ringgold\'s most formative and influential political works are gathered in this beautifully designed clothbound volume Alongside reproductions of key works made between 1967 and 1981, Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power provides an overview of Ringgold\'s seminal artistic and activist work, and its historical context during these years, including accounts by the artist herself.
Ringgold lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey..
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.
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 organized.
Faith Ringgold (born 1930) is a painter, mixed-media sculptor, performance artist, teacher and writer best known for her narrative quilts.
It includes illustrations of individual artworks together with previously unpublished work and archival materials.
Organized chronologically, the book allows readers to retrace the artist\'s foundational creative approaches to contemporaneous social, political and artistic questions.
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.
Her influential work expressed her in-depth knowledge of art history and contemporary art, as well as her activism.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Ringgold, a dedicated and impassioned civil rights advocate, established her voice as a feminist and within the Black Arts Movement.
Ringgold\'s most formative and influential political works are gathered in this beautifully designed clothbound volume Alongside reproductions of key works made between 1967 and 1981, Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power provides an overview of Ringgold\'s seminal artistic and activist work, and its historical context during these years, including accounts by the artist herself
