Ten adultsmen and women, Black and whitefight, flee or die over the twelve-foot span ofAmerican People Series #20: Die, as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst. While Faith Ringgold (born 1930) was devising this bloody spectacle in a Manhattan studio in the summer of 1967, civil unrest was convulsing Black neighborhoods across the US. Art historian Anne Monahan’s essay explores the mural’s carefully orchestrated chaos and its multiform inspirations, from contemporary anxiety about Black revolution, through the writings of James Baldwin and LeRoi Jones, to iconic canvases by Picasso and Pollock then on view at MoMA.

• Item Weight:7.1 ounces
• Paperback 48 pages
• ISBN-10:1633450678
• ISBN-13:9781633450677
• Publisher:The Museum of Modern Art, New York (April 23, 2019)
• Product Dimensions:7 x 0.1 x 9 inches
• Language:English