2021-02-28 at 13:08:10
Iren Annus from University of Szeged
will present A matrix of liberation: Painted artworks of Faith Ringgold
Abstract
Faith Ringgold (b. 1930), one of the most multifaceted and widely acknowledged contemporary Afro-American female artists, gained her reputation for her unconventional portrayals of current American racialized and gendered experiences. The presentation investigates a selection of her painted artworks to explore the various strategies she has employed to capture the specifics of the stories and experiences she wished to convey. The paper argues that Ringgold has not only satisfied the propositions put forth by Parker and Pollock (1981) in their classic volume on specific ways in which women artists may “challenge … the normative procedures, inherent assumptions, value system and ideological language that constitute the discipline of Art History” (2nd ed. 2013, xx), but she has also offered further strategies to subvert and deconstruct traditional modernist narratives and mental frameworks, and to construct a matrix of liberation for an intersectionist articulation of gendered and racialized realities through art.
In section
Cultural Studies