Untitled (Crowd / The Fire Next Time
Artist: Glenn Ligon (American, born 1960)
Publisher: Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
Printer: Dusica Kirjakovic
Printer: Marc Lepson
Date: 2000
Dimensions:
Image: 12 x 18 in. (305 x 459mm)
sheet: 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (500 x 705mm)
Medium: Screenprint with black ink and coal dust on paper
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Winthrop H. Perry Fund
Object number: 2002.20
Label Text:Glenn Ligon is a conceptual artist who chooses to create work in black and white, through many media, as a way of pointing directly at racial stereotypes and expectations. This print features a shot of the Million Man March of black activists in Washington, D.C. in 1995, screenprinted from a photograph. Over the print is a quote, written in coal dust, from James Baldwin’s essay The Fire Next Time (1963): “Something in me wondered, ‘What will happen to all that beauty?’”
Descriptionprinted using water-based black ink and coal dust on white Magnani Incisione paper. The text is a short section from The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Signed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Ligon; and numbered 1.1.: 15/30.
This is a screen print, printed using water-based black ink and coal dust on white Magnani Incisione paper. The text is a short section from The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Signed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Ligon; and numbered 1.1.: 15/30.
This is a screen print, printed using water-based black ink and coal dust on white Magnani Incisione paper. The text is a short section from The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Signed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Ligon; and numbered 1.1.: 15/30.
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