Limit this search to....

Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, the Flag We Should Know
Contributor(s): Clark, Sonya, Lubowsky Talbott, Susan (Contribution by), Oliver, Valerie Cassel (Editor)
ISBN: 0998701866     ISBN-13: 9780998701868
Publisher: Fabric Workshop and Museum
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2020
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
- Art | American - African American
LCCN: 2019956548
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" (0.95 lbs) 112 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

In the spring of 1865, a seemingly unremarkable dishcloth played a crucial role in ending the Civil War as the South's flag of surrender at Appomattox. A Confederate horseman carried a humble white linen towel into the lines of General George Custer, near the courthouse at Appomattox. The horseman was sent on behalf of General Robert E. Lee, who was requesting a suspension of hostilities while General Ulysses S. Grant proposed terms of surrender.

Focusing on this Confederate Flag of Truce, Afro-Caribbean American artist (and professor at Amherst College) Sonya Clark (born 1967) explores the legacy of symbols and challenges the power of propaganda, erasures and omissions through her works. By making the Truce Flag--a cloth that brokered peace and represented the promise of reconciliation--into a monumental alternative to the infamous Confederate Battle Flag and its pervasive divisiveness, Clark instigates a role reversal and aims to correct a historical imbalance.