| Although there are political and historical narratives within his work, Ligon points out that he is a Formalist. |
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| In 2004, 68-year-old Robert Ligon began serving a 15-month federal prison sentence for donut lies. |
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| Its decision to revoke it was challenged, but eventually upheld in court. Mr Ligon says that the plantation company will abide by last month's Supreme Court's ruling. |
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| Ligon also interrogated perceptions of colour through such diverse objects as 1970s colouring books and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of black men in more than 100 works in various media. |
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| Things come to the surface out of the darkness,' says Ligon. |
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| Ligon layers the text in the same way that Reich layered voice recordings in his performance, so that eventually both sound and text almost disappear into abstraction: but not quite. |
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