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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.
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Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2/17/08-5/11/08
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2/17/07-5/13/07
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 11/11/07-2/3/07
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Hardcover. Light chocolate cloth, 418 pp., many color & BW illus., 5 fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2007-2008 exhiibitions of artwork rendered by American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969). This volume goes well beyond the typical format and approach of a single-artist exhibition catalogue. The variety of essays and visuals provided here is representative of Walker's diverse and creative outlets. A must-have for Walker fans . and a publication that should be considered as a stellar example of a contemporary artist monograph. VG (Is missing an original paper title band from front cover; otherwise crisp and clean.). Seller Inventory # 147157