I wrote about the early influence of his work on Faith in "Modernism, Postmodernism and the Problem of the Visual," and Faith immortalized the same in The French Collection, most particularly in her "Picasso's Studio," but among others Picasso has been dropped from the discussion for a variety of reasons, none of them particularly relevant to his artistic value but then that's just my opinion. The photographs of him in his many houses and in the South of France were even better.Īt some point it became extremely unfashionable among a certain set to acknowledge Picasso as important as an artist. Looking back on it I can't recall when it all began to make sense but I do know that the stories that were written about Picasso were always compelling. I pretended I could read (and put my notes and scribbles in her books) until I could actually read. I was eight years old in 1960 but I didn't let that stop me. She read them all and I read them all because I tried my best to read everything Faith read. Faith had every book ever written at that point about him. It is called The Tenement (1960) and it was deeply influenced by Pablo Picasso who was a very important artist in all of our lives. In the course of my life, I have written a lot about this painting by Faith Ringgold.
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I wonder how much I understood at the age of 11? My mother eagerly devoured The Fire Next Time when it first came out, and I first read it myself not too long after. I suppose reading his description of his first encounter with Elijah Mohammed in 1963 goes back to my earliest and dimmest comprehension of the Black Muslims. In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin describes brilliantly the experience of being black in the urban North in precisely the moment in which Malcolm X had captured the imaginations of so many people. This book is so deeply touching to read in December of 2011 after a semester of reviewing with my advanced literature class at the City College the life of Malcolm X as written by Afro-American historian Manning Marable. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, The Dial Press New York 1963 And this leads, imperceptibly but inevitably, to a state of mind in which, having long ago learned to expect the worst, one finds it very easy to believe the worst. Most Negroes cannot risk assuming that the humanity of white people is more real to them than their color. With my mother doing this impractical thing of calling for Rockefeller's impeachment in front of the citadel of high culture and modernism, and yet I have my umbrella because no doubt rain is predicted or threatens and I am a cautious practical person at heart, not at all the flaming radical my spirited mother has compelled me to be.
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I think it is very funny and telling that I am holding an umbrella. What made Jan Van Raay take this picture of me, I am not sure, but I think it had more to do with the presence of Faith and Yvonne, both of whom are in a lot of her pictures, and nothing to do with me at 19 years of age standing between them. In front of other people, we always communicated with such looks.
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She is trying to tell me something, something I perfectly understood at the time but can no longer remember. This is 1971 and my mother and I are locked in mutual gazes with Yvonne Rainier in front of the Museum of Modern Art protesting Rockefeller's involvement with the massacre at Attica Prison.
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It was indeed my idea of a social life.ģ71-16-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMAģ71-14-092371001R Yvonne Rainer, Alice Neel - AWC-Attica protest at MOMAģ71-13-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMAģ71-10-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMAģ74-16-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMAģ74-14-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMAĤ14-24-020472 Judson 3 Lottery Benefit for NYCLU at Leo Castelli Gallery-Kate Millett & Jon HendricksĤ15-25-020472 Judson 3 Lottery Benefit for NYCLU at Leo Castelli Galleryģ74-16-092371001R AWC-Attica protest at MOMA, a photo by Jan van Raay on Flickr.Įveryone of the pictures i can find of myself in this extraordinary archive of photos of artists protests in the early 70s, I am in the background except this one. And I have very few pictures of myself at this age, and even fewer of me engaged in this very important moment in my life when atttendance at protest marches was an every day occurence for me. I just wanted to pull together the images I could find of myself as part of Jan Van Raay's magnum opus on 60s and 70s protest in the art world and elsewhere.