Faith Ringgold
2) Tar Beach
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed American artist whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil-rights movements for more than half a century. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, New York, this expansive survey covers work from all periods of her career, including her early civil rights-era figurative paintings, her graphic political protest posters, and her signature...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mama and Papa Love have a child, the Invisible Princess, who saves them and the other plantation slaves from their cruel master so that they can all find happiness in the Invisible Village of Peace, Freedom, and Love.
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Presents the Christmas story according to Luke plus the words to five popular Christmas carols--"Silent Night," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "O Holy Night," "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," and "Joy to the World," sung on the accompanying CD by the Boys Choir of Harlem.
Publisher
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
180 pages : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Women Painting Women explores nearly fifty female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. International in scope and spanning the late 1960s to the present, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. Painting is the focus, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white men. The women in this presentation range...