“I’m Better Than These Motherfuckers”
Date
1970
Credits
Format
- Illustration 283
Type of Work
- Finished work 5481
Media
- silk-screen 92
Dimensions
20 × 30 in
"The closing stanza of this rousing militant poem provided the title for Barbara Jones-Hogu’s 1971 silkscreen series, “Rise and Take Control.” Two of these images, a symmetrical semi-abstract triple portrait fractured with flowing acid-rock text, appear in the Logan Center for the Arts’ retrospective of the fierce, vivid work of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), a group of Black Power-era Chicago artists who came together to represent and promote a resistant Afrocentric message through (and beyond) visual art. Jones-Hogu’s 'I’m Better Than These Motherfuckers' is an even more direct statement, and an even more densely and exquisitely printed piece, centering on a black woman sitting on the beach among melanin-deficient figures seemingly dissolving in the sunlight."— https://art.newcity.com/2013/07/12/review-africobralogan-center-for-the-arts/
