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Sonya Clark : monumental cloth, the flag we should know / Sonya Clark.
Fine Arts Library N6537.C4987 A4 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Sonya, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women artists--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American women artists.
- African American artists--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American artists.
- Artists, Black--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Artists, Black.
- Flags in art--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Flags in art.
- Textile crafts--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Textile crafts.
- Performance art--History--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Performance art.
- Clark, Sonya--Exhibitions.
- Clark, Sonya.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war.
- United States.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- MW editions.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Published by the Fabric Workshop and Museum and MW Editions, 2020.
- Summary:
- "In the spring of 1865, a seemingly unremarkable dishcloth played a crucial role in ending the Civil War as the South's flag of surrender at Appomattox. A Confederate horseman carried a humble white linen towel into the lines of General George Custer, near the courthouse at Appomattox. The horseman was sent on behalf of General Robert E. Lee, who was requesting a suspension of hostilities while General Ulysses S. Grant proposed terms of surrender. Focusing on this Confederate Flag of Truce, Afro-Caribbean American artist (and professor at Amherst College) Sonya Clark (born 1967) explores the legacy of symbols and challenges the power of propaganda, erasures and omissions through her works. By making the Truce Flag-a cloth that brokered peace and represented the promise of reconciliation-into a monumental alternative to the infamous Confederate Battle Flag and its pervasive divisiveness, Clark instigates a role reversal and aims to correct a historical imbalance"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Susan Lubowsky Talbott
- We hold these truths / by Valerie Cassel Oliver
- "A piece of cloth that brings a nation to its knees" / by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Monumental and many
- Reconstruction exercise
- Lesson plan (Confederate Truce Flag)
- Reversals
- Propaganda and title wall
- About the artist
- Acknowledgments
- About The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
- Notes:
- "This book was occasioned by the exhibition Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (March 29, 2019 - August 4, 2019). Exhibition itinerary: H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, MO (January 31 - March 21, 2020). deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (October 9, 2020 - March 7, 2021)"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780998701868
- 0998701866
- OCLC:
- 1411224474
- Publisher Number:
- 90102075067
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