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Dancing at the Louvre : Faith Ringgold's French collection and other story quilts

Title
Dancing at the Louvre : Faith Ringgold's French collection and other story quilts / Dan Cameron [and others] ; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Publication
  • Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998]
  • ©1998

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Additional Authors
  • Ringgold, Faith.
  • Cameron, Dan.
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Akron Art Museum.
Description
ix, 167 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
"Designed to accompany a major traveling exhibition of Ringgold's work, Dancing at the Louvre offers a clear overview of her contribution to contemporary art and showcases in dazzling color, for the first time, all of the exquisite story quilts in her celebrated series The French Collection. ... Essays examine her stylistic development from the 1960s through the 1990s and explore the social and political aspects of her story quilts."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Ringgold, Faith > Exhibitions
  • Ringgold, Faith
  • Ringgold, Faith
  • African American quilts > Exhibitions
  • African American quilts
  • Quilt
  • Quilts
  • New York <NY, 1998>
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Ausstellungskatalog – 1998 – New York, NY.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Akron Art Museum, Jan. 24-Mar. 22, 1998 and at five other museums through Oct. 10, 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Faith Ringgold's French connection / Richard J. Powell -- Living history : Faith Ringgold's rendezvous with the twentieth century / Dan Cameron -- The French collection : Momma Jones, Mommy Fay, and me / Michele Wallace -- The castration of Memphis Cooly : race, gender, and nationalist iconography in the flag art of Faith Ringgold / Patrick Hill -- Faith Ringgold's journey : from Greek busts to African American dilemma tales / Thalia Gouma-Peterson -- Of cotton and sunflower fields : the makings of The French and The American collection / Moira Roth -- Faith Ringgold's Picasso's studio / Ann Gibson.
ISBN
  • 0520214293
  • 9780520214293
  • 0520214307
  • 9780520214309
LCCN
97031079
OCLC
  • ocm37465517
  • 37465517
  • SCSB-352621
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library