Hertha D. Sweet Wong
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469640709
- eISBN:
- 9781469640723
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640709.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
African American artist Faith Ringgold’s oversized story quilts are painted and stitched image-text narratives on fabric intended to be hung on art gallery walls. In all her work she thematizes race ...
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African American artist Faith Ringgold’s oversized story quilts are painted and stitched image-text narratives on fabric intended to be hung on art gallery walls. In all her work she thematizes race and gender, part of her project to revise historical misrepresentations and generate more accurate depictions. This chapter discusses Ringgold’s various interventions in a long history of textual and visual domination, noting also Ringgold’s innovations: how quilt squares function simultaneously as individual images or texts and as part of the entire visual field. Each quilt square functions as a page, while a series of quilt squares can function also as a frame. The sets of relations between page and frame and between image and text are multiple and variable.Less
African American artist Faith Ringgold’s oversized story quilts are painted and stitched image-text narratives on fabric intended to be hung on art gallery walls. In all her work she thematizes race and gender, part of her project to revise historical misrepresentations and generate more accurate depictions. This chapter discusses Ringgold’s various interventions in a long history of textual and visual domination, noting also Ringgold’s innovations: how quilt squares function simultaneously as individual images or texts and as part of the entire visual field. Each quilt square functions as a page, while a series of quilt squares can function also as a frame. The sets of relations between page and frame and between image and text are multiple and variable.
Erin Kendrick
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781800859777
- eISBN:
- 9781800852488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781800859777.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the dilemma faced by black female visual and performance artists Faith Ringgold, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Dindga McCannon and Ntozake Shange – at the height of the Black Arts ...
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This chapter discusses the dilemma faced by black female visual and performance artists Faith Ringgold, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Dindga McCannon and Ntozake Shange – at the height of the Black Arts movement. It is questioned that if the goal of the Black Arts movement was to reclaim and redefine what it was to be black in America - was it propagated at the expense of black women's mental, physical, and emotional health? The chapter chronicles the efforts of each of these black women artists to use their works of art to center their authentic lived experiences collectively and individually as a vehicle for critical thought and critique, policy change, and inclusion. Lastly, writer Erin Kendrick, discusses how the contributions of these black women artists created an opportunity for both self-discovery and self-preservation in her own contemporary body of work.Less
This chapter discusses the dilemma faced by black female visual and performance artists Faith Ringgold, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Dindga McCannon and Ntozake Shange – at the height of the Black Arts movement. It is questioned that if the goal of the Black Arts movement was to reclaim and redefine what it was to be black in America - was it propagated at the expense of black women's mental, physical, and emotional health? The chapter chronicles the efforts of each of these black women artists to use their works of art to center their authentic lived experiences collectively and individually as a vehicle for critical thought and critique, policy change, and inclusion. Lastly, writer Erin Kendrick, discusses how the contributions of these black women artists created an opportunity for both self-discovery and self-preservation in her own contemporary body of work.
