Ringgold's most formative and influential political works are collected in this beautifully crafted clothbound volume. In addition to reproductions of key works created between 1967 and 1981, "Faith Ringgold: Politics/Power" offers an overview of Ringgold's seminal artistic and activist work and its historical context during those years, including testimonials from the artist herself.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Faith Ringgold, a dedicated and passionate civil rights activist, made her voice heard as a feminist and within the Black Arts Movement. Her influential work expresses her deep knowledge of art history and contemporary art, as well as her activism. Covering mediums such as painting, cut-paper works, posters, collages, and textile art, the works featured in this publication highlight the artist's explicitly political pieces, for which she deployed new materials and formal processes and developed a radical aesthetic and vocabulary.
Organized chronologically, the book allows readers to trace the artist's fundamental creative approaches to contemporary social, political, and artistic issues. It includes illustrations of individual works as well as previously unpublished works and archival documents.
