Dancing at the Louvre

Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts

Author: Faith Ringgold
Secondary Author: New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN: 0520214307

"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

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Visual/Performing Arts)