Experience Faith Ringgold: Die Edited By Anne Monahan Exhibited In Leaflet
a very important, comprehensive amp brief detailing of Faith Ringgolds magnum opus DIE amp its significance in the world today, Ten adultsmen and women, black and whitefight, flee, or die over the twelvefoot span of American People Series: Die as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst.
While Faith Ringgold was painting this apocalyptic vision in a Manhattan studio in the summer of, civil unrest convulsed black neighborhoods across the United States and protests against the war in Vietnam escalated.
Art historian Anne Monahan explores the murals orchestrated chaos and its multiform inspirations, from contemporary anxiety about black revolution, through the writings of James Baldwin and Leroi Jones soon to be Amiri Baraka, to iconic canvases by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock then on view at The Museum of Modern Art.
ppillus. Anne Monahan is an art historian based in New York, .