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  • December 31, 1969 | 7:00 PM
    December 31, 1969
    7:00 PM
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Day 3: Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon employs the practice  of intertextuality in his conceptual work. This term, coined by Julia Kristeva in 1966, describes how pre-existing texts are transformed into new texts. Ligon’s intertextual works often touches upon race, language, and sexual identity.

View these works by Glenn Ligon. Can you identify the author of the original text?

Glenn Ligon slideshow

From “Melanctha,” a 1909 novella by Gertrude Stein. Glenn Ligon, "Negro Sunshine," 2006, Neon sign, Ed. 3/7, 4 x 48 in. (10.1 x 121.9 cm), Rubell Family Collection, Miami
From the poem 'Recessional' by Rudyard Kipling. Glenn Ligon, Lest We Forget, 1998, cast aluminum or bronze plaques, Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery, NY
From 'How it feels to be colored me,' a 1928 essay by Zora Neale Hurston. Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background), 1990. Oil stick, gesso, and graphite on wood. 80 × 30 in. (203.2 × 76.2 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon; photograph courtesy of Glenn Ligon; photograph by Dennis Cowley

30 Americans is organized by the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. The presenting sponsor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is Altria Group.

Additional support has been provided by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.



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