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Glenn Ligon, Narratives, 1993

Images of Glenn Ligon, Narratives

  • A title page on cream paper with a thin matching frame for the text "The Life and Adventures of Glenn Ligon"
  • A title page on light-peach paper with a thin frame for the text "A Pilgrimage to my Mother's Land"
  • A title page on white paper with a thin frame for the text "Incidents in the Life of a Snow Queen"
  • Peach paper with a thin matching frame and printed with a letter to the public titled "Black Like Me or The Authentic Narrative of Glenn Ligon"
A title page on cream paper with a thin matching frame for the text "The Life and Adventures of Glenn Ligon"
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
A title page on light-peach paper with a thin frame for the text "A Pilgrimage to my Mother's Land"
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
A title page on white paper with a thin frame for the text "Incidents in the Life of a Snow Queen"
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Peach paper with a thin matching frame and printed with a letter to the public titled "Black Like Me or The Authentic Narrative of Glenn Ligon"
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Glenn Ligon, American, b. 1960
Narratives, 1993
Etchings on paper with chine colle
9 parts, each: 25 × 17 ½ in. (63.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, 2000.13.a-i. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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  • Black stenciled text that reads "WE ARE THE INK THAT GIVES THE WHITE PAGE A MEANING" repeats for twenty-nine lines, gradually becoming distorted until it's almost illegible at the bottom.
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  • A framed text, black on white, reads "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background". This phrase is repeated and gradually becomes distorted until illegible at the bottom.
    Glenn Ligon, Untitled, 1992
    1. Long A body of black text is printed on a white rectangle with even borders of white space on all four sides. The text reads "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background," repeated without punctuation or line breaks to separate the repetitions. The text is printed in a stenciled font with gritty smudges that become more and more prominent as the text continues, eventually blending with the text at the bottom of the image, rendering it almost illegible. It has a narrow black frame.