アフリカ系アメリカ人アーティスト、フェイス・リングゴールド（Faith Ringgold）の作品集。1967年から1981年にかけての作者の代表的な芸術・社会活動とその歴史的背景についての詳細な解説、そして作者自身による各作品への解説を収録した1冊。本書は、年代順に構成されており、同時代の社会的、政治的、芸術的な問題に対する作者の根本にある芸術へのアプローチを辿る。各作品の図版、未発表作品やアーカイブ資料も収録している。

熱心な公民権活動家であり、フェミニストである作者は、1960年代から1970年代にかけて、「ブラック・アーツ・ムーブメント（BAM）」の中でその発信力を確立した。作者は、美術史や現代アートの深い知識と、政治活動を通じて影響力の高い作品を制作してきた。本書で紹介される絵画、切り紙作品、ポスター、コラージュ、テキスタイルアートなど、様々なメディアを駆使した作品は、新しい素材や形式を取り入れ、ラディカルな美学と言語を創造し、作品に妥協のない並外れた迫力を与えた、作者の明確な政治的作品を前景に据えたものである。

The publication Faith Ringgold – Politics / Power provides detailed accounts on Faith Ringgold’s seminal artistic and activist work and its historical context between 1967 and 1981, including accounts by the artist herself on each artwork. Organized chronologically, the book allows readers to retrace the artist’s foundational creative approaches to contemporaneous social, political and artistic questions. It includes illustrations of individual artworks together with previously unpublished work and archival materials.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Ringgold, a dedicated and impassioned civil rights advocate, established her voice as a feminist and within the Black Arts Movement. She produced particularly
impactful work in connection with her in-depth knowledge of art history and contemporary art as well as her political activism. Spanning media such as painting, cut paper works, posters, collage, and textile art, the works presented in this publication foregrounds the artist’s explicitly political work for which she deployed new material and formal processes and developed radical aesthetics and language that give her work and its uncompromising content exceptional intensity.

Faith Ringgold (born 1930) is a painter, mixed-media sculptor, performance artist, teacher and writer. In 2020, the New York Times described her as an artist “who has confronted race relations in this country from every angle, led protests to diversify museums decades ago, and even went to jail for an exhibition she organized.” Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Ringgold lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey.