{"id":2409,"date":"2012-07-10T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/07\/10\/artinfos-top-10-us-flag-artworks-ranked-from\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:21:18","slug":"artinfos-top-10-us-flag-artworks-ranked-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/artinfos-top-10-us-flag-artworks-ranked-from","title":{"rendered":"ARTINFO&#8217;s Top 10 U.S. Flag Artworks, Ranked From Reverentially Patriotic to Polemically Dissident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though the recent July 4th holiday marks the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence that proclaimed the 13 colonies\u2019 separation from Great Britain and it wasn\u2019t until June of the following year that the fledgling union of states adopted Old Glory as its official flag, its red, white, and blue pattern of stripes and stars has become a staple of July 4th celebrations \u2014 much more so, in fact, than the rarely observed Flag Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For these and innumerable other reasons, the U.S. flag has proved an inexhaustible source of inspiration, fodder for allusion, and focus of political commentary for artists over the past 225 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/photo-galleries\/slideshow-artinfos-top-10-us-flag-artworks-ranked-from-reverentially-patriotic-to-polemically-dissident\">Here,&nbsp;<strong>ARTINFO<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;has collected their favorite pieces of flag art and ranked them from the most patriotic to the most dissident, including Ed Kienholz\u2019s <em>War Memorial <\/em>(1968).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/image-38.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/image-38.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/image-38-300x124.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn his enormous installation based on \u2014 among other sources \u2014 the 1945 photograph \u201cRaising the Flag on Iwo Jima,\u201d Kienholz restages the heroic erecting of the U.S. flag by American soldiers amidst a quintessential diner scene, with the flag markedly shrunken as an implied criticism not only of American consumerism but of the country\u2019s contemporaneous military activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/news\/story\/811871\/artinfos-top-10-us-flag-artworks-ranked-from-reverentially-patriotic-to-polemically-dissident\">Reblogged<\/a> from Artinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the recent July 4th holiday marks the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence that proclaimed the 13 colonies\u2019 separation from Great Britain and it wasn\u2019t until June of the following year that the fledgling union of states adopted Old Glory as its official flag, its red, white, and blue pattern of stripes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>ARTINFO&#039;s Top 10 U.S. Flag Artworks, Ranked From Reverentially Patriotic to Polemically Dissident - L.A. 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