We Carried You In Our Arms 4 July 2019 on independence day—images & sounds for july 4. Jasper Johns, Two Flags (Black) (crop), 1970-72. “We carried you in our arms…on Independence Day,” The Band, “Tears of Rage,” Live at the Woodstock Festival, 1969. Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” 5 July 5 1852. Faith Ringgold, The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding, 1967. Jeremy Dean, Economics, 2010. “We must be doing something right to last 200 years”? Robert Altman, Nashville opening scene, 1975. Bill Callahan, “America!,” 2011. Teen Titans Go, “Awesome America,” 2017. Andy Warhol, Photo by Alberto Schommer, 1983. Peter Moore, performance view of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A with Flag, Judson Memorial Church, 1970. Wally Hedrick, Flag, 1953. Wally Hedrick, Burn Me, 1990. Jimi Hendrix, “Star-Spangled Banner,” Woodstock Festival, 1969. “Dread” Scott Tyler, What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?, 1989. Ben Sakoguchi, from The Caprices series (2003-04). Vote Dolly for President T-shirt. “Like some surrealist invented this 4th of July,” Joni Mitchell, “Night Ride Home,” 1988.
