Word: quilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quilt depicts Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), the escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and earned the title of "the Moses of her people." It is not so well known that she was also one of the more than 400,000 Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated...
...second quilt is a portrait of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), perhaps the greatest Negro American of the 19th century. Despite frequent floggings, he taught himself to write, escaped from slavery, and took his surname from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. He made his first abolitionist speech here in Massachusetts at the age of 24, and eventually rose to hold several government posts. He wrote one of the greatest autobiographies ever penned by an American, the first edition of which is on exhibition; and the U.S. Post Office this spring honored his sesquicentennial by issuing a special commemorative...
...cheerfully scratchy, crazy-quilt compositions of bicycle handlebars, Coke bottles and girls in garter belts owe a good deal to Klee and Dubuffet...
...prevailing sexual mores, a predilection for pot and peyote, wanderlust, a penchant for Oriental mysticism on the order of Zen and the Veda. Yet the contrasts are even more striking. San Francisco's North Beach was a study in black and white; the Haight-Ashbury is a crazy quilt of living color. Black was a basic color in the abstract-expressionist painting of the beats; hippiedom's psychedelic poster art is blindingly vivid. The progressive jazz of the beats was coolly cerebral; the acid rock of the hippies is as visceral as a torn intestine...
...sophisticated London. Bridget, an art student, found her three years ago, moved in to look after her, and last year, in hopes of raising money to supplement Queen's $37-a-month-old-age pension, invited some art teachers in to look at the small, neatly sewn quilt-pictures that the old lady had made. Within two months, London Dealer Crane Kalman was staging an exhibition of them...