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David Hammons
Injustice Case1970

Not on view
Vertical print of a figure seated in a wooden chair, body and head completely wrapped in transparent plastic, bordered by red, white, and blue American flag stripes and stars
Mixed-media work combining a large photographic print and an American flag strip along the top and left edges. A figure in jeans sits in profile on a wooden chair, wrapped tightly in transparent plastic sheeting from head to toe, against a white background.
Artist or Maker
David Hammons
United States, Illinois, Springfield, born 1943
Title
Injustice Case
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1970
Medium
Body print and American flag
Dimensions
Sheet: 63 x 40 1/2 in. (160.02 x 102.87 cm) Framed: 69 × 47 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (175.26 × 120.02 × 5.72 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.71.7
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Butler, Jerry. A Drawing in the Sand: The Story of African American Art. Zino Press Children's Books, 1998.
  • Doss, Erika. Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Davis, Bruce and Ebria Feinblatt. Los Angeles Prints: 1883-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.
  • David Hammons: Selected Works 1968-1974. Los Angeles, Calif.: California State University, Los Angeles, 1974.
  • Chinn, Sarah. Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body As Evidence. Continuum Publishing Group, 2000.
  • Haskell, Barbara and Phillips, Lisa. The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000. The Whitney Museum of American Art and W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Kamps, Toby and Steve Seid. 2012. Silence. Houston: Menil Foundation.
  • Bindman, David and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general eds. The Image of the Black in Western Art, vol. 5, pt. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; In collaboration with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research; Houston: Menil Collection, 2014.
  • Arnason, H.H., and Marla F. Prather. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

  • David Hammons: Five Decades. New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2016.
  • Doss, Erika. American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Godfrey, Mark and Zoé Whitley. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. London: Tate Publishing, 2017.
  • Shaked, Nizan. The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
  • Oehler, Sarah Kelly, and Esther Adler, editors. Charles White: a Retrospective. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicage, 2018.
  • Ho, Melissa, Thomas Crow, Erica Levin, Katherine Markoski, Mignon Nixon, and Martha Rosler. Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
  • Kim, Christine Y., and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, editors. Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books-D.A.P., 2023.
Copyright
© 2025 David Hammons / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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