Kara Walker – Narratives of a Negress - Hardcover

Berry, Ian

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9780262025409: Kara Walker – Narratives of a Negress

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ISBN 10: 026202540X ISBN 13: 9780262025409

Publisher: MIT Press, 2003

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Kara Walker (b. 1969) has emerged as one of her generation's most important artists. Best known for her provocative black paper cutout silhouettes, she confronts stereotypes, sex, violence, and power relationships through Civil War-era parodies, narratives, and a mastery of craft and installation. This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Williams College Museum of Art, presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work, beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation, "Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart" (1994). Other highlights include the 1996 series of 24 watercolor drawings, "Brown Follies", which is reproduced in full as an artist's book within the book, and installation views of many of Walker's exhibitions. Drawings and projections are also featured. Throughout the book are a selection of the Walker's writings reproduced as they were created typed on index cards. These writings reveal a rarely seen side of the artist, whose words are as provocative as her installations and drawings. The essays discuss Walker's place in art history, formal and narrative readings of her work, her relation to culture at large, and issues of race, sexuality, and representation addressed in her work.

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Review:

"This well-designed and illuminating book is the first to grapple with Walker's audacious and shrewdly provocative inquiries."-- Donna Seaman, "Booklist"

About the Author:

Ian Berry is Curator of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Darby English is Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs, Clark Art Institute. Vivian Patterson is Associate Curator, Collections Management at the Williams College Museum of Art. Mark Reinhardt is Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Williams College.

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