{"id":81366,"date":"2026-05-22T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&p=81366"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:20:45","slug":"dancing-at-the-louvre-signed-by-artist-faith-ringgold","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/dancing-at-the-louvre-signed-by-artist-faith-ringgold\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing at the Louvre, signed by artist Faith Ringgold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creativity helps us realize that we don’t have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.
\n\u2014Faith Ringgold<\/strong><\/p>\n

This catalog is the first book-length publication devoted to the exquisite story quilts of contemporary artist Faith Ringgold. Combining painted images, handwritten texts, and quilting techniques, Ringgold weaves together modernist painting; feminist critique; postmodernist strategies of appropriation, parody, and montage; and personal memoir in a remarkable synthesis that takes on European modernism, African American folk art, and the “black aesthetic” of the 1960s and 1970s. The catalog accompanies an exhibition of The French Collection and The American Collection, a series of story quilts Ringgold has produced since 1990. Catalog essays include an examination of Ringgold’s stylistic development through the 1960s and 1970s, an exploration of the social and political aspects of the story quilts, and a recollection by the artist’s daughter, writer Michele Wallace.<\/p>\n

“…offers a clear overview of (Ringgold’s) contribution to contemporary art and showcases in dazzling color all of the exquisite story quilts in her celebrated series The French Collection<\/em>.” Also features many of Ringgold’s earlier works, plus critical and biographical essays. <\/p>\n

“My process is designed to give us ‘colored folk’ and women a taste of the American dream straight up. Since the facts don’t do that too often, I decided to make it up. . . . That is the real power and joy of being an artist. We can make it come true. Or look true.”\u2014Faith Ringgold, in a 1992 interview<\/p>\n

Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and Other Story Quilts<\/em> by New Museum of Contemporary Art Staff, condition; unread and unused, signed boldly by the artist, see photo details, this book was issued simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. This copy is for a paperback first edition, first printing, with a very strong signature, signed and dated “2\/23\/99” on the title page by the artist; Mint in wraps, University of California, 1998, 168 pages., color illustrated [YA3]<\/p>\n

Note; our bookstore hosted an appearance by the artist when this book was signed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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