Guerilla Art Action Group.
Documentation Zum Prozess: Ringgold, Toche, Hendricks.
Stuttgart: Reflection Press, 1971.
Side-stapled softcover.
120 pages including covers.
Very good.
Front cover has burnt circle with fire damaged circle to title page beneath in evocation of Toche & Hendricks' "Burning Ceremony of the American Flag".
Covers have creasing and a spot or two of chipping.
Inside clean and unmarked.
Signed by Jon Hendricks.
Scarce copy of this Reflection Press title documenting the People’s Flag Show at Judson Church and the subsequent arrest, legal challenges, and fundraising for Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon Hendricks who were arrested for desecrating the flag of the United States of America. Reproductions of flyers, correspondence, court documents, German fundraising efforts, etc.
"What is the work of a flag? What does it represent, and for whom? These questions were at the center of the People’s Flag Show, an exhibition mounted in November 1970 at the Judson Memorial Church in New York by curator and artist Jon Hendricks, artist Jean Toche, and Faith Ringgold. Catalyzed by a pending Supreme Court case of a gallerist charged with flag desecration for his display of anti-war artworks, the trio invited artists and the larger community to contribute “flag works”—civilian reinterpretations and reclamations of this national symbol—to protest and challenge the limits of the repressive laws.
On the night before the show was to close, Hendricks, Toche, and Ringgold, soon to be known as the Judson 3, were arrested and charged with desecration of the flag".
Rare in the trade.
