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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Rigsby Design (Houston, Texas)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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The cover of this exhibition catalogue is a revealing cultural self-portrait by black artist Michael Ray Charles. A circus poster for the fictitious Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus introduces a series of works that use inflammatory racial and sexual stereotypes as tools for exploring cultural identity.