- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Condition report
- Creator:
- Ligon, Glenn, 1960-
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- Conceptual art--United States
African American prints--United States
Signs and signboards
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis
Digital printing
Serigraphy
Prints, American
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- mixed media
screen prints - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Iris print by Glenn Ligon.
Ligon is known for multi-media works that are rich in symbolism, that requently employ appropriation or quotation, and commonly explore such issues as race, sexual identity, representation and language. The subject of this work is a placard carried by Memphis sanitation workers during a strike in 1968 that was the final civil rights march for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. The notations on the right side of the work describe the effects of time on the placard, and are a symbolic comment on the role and effects of race in contemporary society.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04122011-33
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04122011-33
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 digital print : Iris print and Iris print with serigraph ; 106 x 143 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
-
