A photo of a book cover by Donald Lipski featuring an 8 foot sized ball wrapped and covered in American flags sitting in a grassy, park-like outdoor environment.

An open book spread featuring a color photograph in portrait orientation with an uneven black border. The photo is an exhibition view of Donald Lipski's sculpture titled Black by Popular Demand. The sculpture is of two 360 by 360 by 252-inch American flags assembled in an X formation, printed on silk organza fabric. The sculpture sits in an exhibition space at Corcoran Gallery of Art. The space has two stories. Grey floors with blur squares assembled in a rectangle, and is dimly lit.

A photo of an open spread of a book. On the left is an image of two american flags woven together by the red and white stripes and displayed within a white frame. On the right is a description by the artist.

An open book spread featuring two photographs. On the left is a photo of an American flag flying against a blue sky. There are puzzle pieces missing creating a checkerboard effect over the photo. On the right is a photograph of an American flag hanging against a white wall. The flag appears to have been shredded about 3/4 up the height of the flag.

A photograph of an open spread of a book. There are two black and white photos of different angles of the same art installation. The photos are an exhibition view of Donald Lipski's sculpture titled Who's Afraid of Red, White & Blue #31. The sculpture is an 840 by 288-inch American flag printed on translucent nylon. The flag has been installed in a glass ceiling atrium at the Haviland Building of Philadelphia's University of the Arts.

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Description

In this project, Donald Lipski uses of the American flag as an object to make a prolific series of sculptures questioning the "protection" of the American flag as a symbol.

Published on the occasion of Donald Lipski: Who's Afraid of Red, White & Blue?, 1990, this catalogue features works within the exhibitions that ran concurrently at four institutions: The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Published 1991 by The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Softcover, 38 pages / color
9.5 x 6.5 inches

Includes a foreword by Marion Boulton Stroud and an excerpt by John Yau.

ISBN: 0961976005

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Donald Lipski

Donald Lipski’s works captivate the imagination, illuminating new dimensions of everyday objects. Matchbooks, paintbrushes, Christmas trees, and American flags are a small sampling of objects transformed through his sculptural practice.

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