111.1996: The United States of Attica
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 111.1996
- People
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Faith Ringgold, American (New York, New York 1930 - 2024 Englewood, New Jersey)
- Title
- The United States of Attica
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1971
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232583
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Offset Photolithograph printed in green, red, blue and black on white wove paper
- Technique
- Photolithograph
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55.3 x 69.9 cm (21 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: signed and dated in the plate
- inscription: l.r. in plate: 9/71 Ringgold
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
- Copyright
- © Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 111.1996
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Ringgold as since gone on to fame as a printer/quiltmaker, emphasizing her feminist concerns has strongly as her concerns for racial justice. This poster is perhaps among the last of her more polemical works, which characterized her art in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is one of the most important documents of social protest made by an artist in the early1970s; its plebian technique and large edition are a part of its message as well as a means for its dissemination.
Exhibition History
- DISSENT!, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/11/2006 - 02/25/2007
Verification Level
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