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Dancing at the Louvre : Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts by Dan Cameron, Dan Cameron, Richard J. Powell, Ann Gibson, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patrick Hill, Morra Roth, Michele Wallace is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dancing at the Louvre : Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts about?
"My process is designed to give us 'colored folk' and women a taste of the American dream straight up. Since the facts don't do that too often, I decided to make it up. . . . That is the real power and joy of being an artist. We can make it come true. Or look true."—Faith Ringgold, in a 1992 interview This catalog is the first book-length publication devoted to the exquisite story quilts of contemporary artist Faith Ringgold. Combining painted images, handwritten texts, and quilting techniques, Ringgold weaves together modernist painting; feminist critique; postmodernist strategies of appropriation, parody, and montage; and personal memoir in a remarkable synthesis that takes on European modernism, African American folk art, and the "black aesthetic" of the 1960s and 1970s. The catalog accompanies an exhibition of __The French Collection__ and __The American Collection__, a series of story quilts Ringgold has produced since 1990. Catalog essays include an examination of Ringgold's stylistic development through the 1960s and 1970s, an exploration of the social and political aspects of the story quilts, and a recollection by the artist's daughter, writer Michele Wallace. Ringgold has
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dan Cameron, Dan Cameron, Richard J. Powell, Ann Gibson, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patrick Hill, Morra Roth, Michele Wallace
- Publisher
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520214309
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Crafts & Hobbies, History, Art
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