Anti-war artists used flag desecration as organized political provocation

Evidence

The day after Halloween, the Times announced an open exhibition, The People’s Flag Show, to be held at Judson Church in mid-November. The show was organized by GAAG-sters Jean Toche and John Hendrix along with the forty-year-old painter Faith Ringgold, whose recent work included The Flag Is Bleeding—in which a wounded Black man, as well as two whites, male and female, are imprisoned behind its bloody stripes—and Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger with the words “die” and “nigger” embedded in a muted, gray-tinted American flag. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1628

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the ‘craft_and_method’ and gentrification theses by showing how provocation and political risk were central to the avant-garde ethos the reader is tracking.