Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. Introductions to the plates by Samuel Allen, Antoinette D. Roberts, and Caitlin Ryan -- A pilgrimage to Dolores Huerta: the forty acres, Arvin Migratory Labor Camp, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center (2023-24) -- Glenn D. Lowry -- In solidarity: a notion of family, a nation of sisters / Roxana Marcoci -- On the making of steel genesis and other occasions of intergenerational crossing / Emilie Boone -- The enduring choreographies of Black life in Braddock / Delphine Sims -- The ocean in the air: Flint's atmospheric water generator / Carson Chan -- The storyteller / Oluremi C. Onabanjo -- Monuments of solidarity / Introductions to the plates by Samuel Allen, Antoinette D. Roberts, and Caitlin Ryan -- The notion of family (2001-14) -- If everybody's work is equally important? (2010-13) -- Pier 54: a human right to passage (2014) -- Flint is family in three acts (2016-20) -- On the making of steel genesis: Sandra Gould Ford (2017) -- The last cruze (2019) -- More than conquerors: a monument for community health workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 (2021-22) -- A pilgrimage to Dolores Huerta: the forty acres, Arvin Migratory Labor Camp, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center (2023-24) -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.
Summary:
"For more than two decades, the artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier has used photography, text, moving images, and performance to revive and preserve forgotten narratives of labor, gender, and race in the postindustrial era. Frazier has cultivated a practice that builds on the legacy of the social documentary tradition of the 1930s, the photo-conceptual forays of the 1960s and 1970s, and the work of socially conscious writers like Upton Sinclair, James Baldwin, and bell hooks. Monuments of Solidarity celebrates the creativity and collaboration that persist in the face of industrialization and deindustrialization, racial and environmental injustice, gender disparities, unequal access to health care and clean water, and the erosion or denial of fundamental human rights. A form of Black feminist world-building, Frazier's nontraditional 'monuments' demand recognition of the crucial role that women and people of color have played, and continue to play, in histories of labor and the working class. Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive museum survey dedicated to the artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity presents the full range of her practice and includes both rarely seen and brand-new bodies of work. An illuminating overview essay by the exhibition's curator, Roxana Marcoci, is accompanied by a manifesto by the artist and a suite of focused essays by other curators and scholars"-- Provided by publisher.
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