![]() Nelson Rockefeller, whose family founded MoMA. Her shrewd map also subtly encodes Johns as a major American artist consecrated by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which famously acquired three paintings in 1958 from the then-unknown artist’s first gallery show. ![]() Ringgold’s chaos is instead declarative and relentless. This is not a Jasper Johns-style map, on which a beautifully chaotic array of brushy color and stenciled, misdirected place-names brilliantly re-imagines what a work of art is or might be. Ringgold titled her map, which she mass-produced as a lithographic poster, “United States of Attica.” As the civil rights movement slowly advanced, pushback was being felt. Attica held nearly twice as many inmates as the penitentiary had been designed for, more than half of them black Americans the correctional staff was largely white. The prison rebellion embodied elements of a national history that remained very much repressed. Partly that’s because it resonates against mass incarceration as a defining civil rights issue today. Nearly half a century on, Ringgold’s image still shocks. In response, artist Faith Ringgold drew a devastating map.Ī copy hangs in the second room of “ Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963-1983,” a large and ambitious traveling exhibition downtown at the Broad. Prisoner demands for humane treatment were met with an institutional show of force. 13, 1971, the deadliest prison upheaval in American history came to a blood-spattered end just east of Buffalo, N.Y., with more than 40 prisoners and employees dead at the notorious Attica Correctional Facility.
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