Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Author: Dan Cameron (Editor)
Publisher: New Museum/University of California Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 168
ISBN: 978-0520214309

This catalog is the first book-length publication devoted to the exquisite story quilts of contemporary artist Faith Ringgold. Combining painted images, handwritten texts, and quilting techniques, Ringgold weaves together modernist painting; feminist critique; postmodernist strategies of appropriation, parody, and montage; and personal memoir in a remarkable synthesis that takes on European modernism, African American folk art, and the "black aesthetic" of the 1960s and 1970s.