After the Deluge
Walker, Kara
ISBN 10: 0847829812 ISBN 13: 9780847829811
Published by Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 2007
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Synopsis:
Since she first came to the attention of the art world nearly ten years ago, Kara Walker has become one of the most important artists of her generation. Championed by the art world for her fearless embrace of challenging subject matter, Walker has created a body of work that looks unflinchingly at racial inequality in the United States. Known for her bold images using the traditional silhouette, Walker upends the genteel, Victorian origins of the medium by graphically portraying scenes from the antebellum South to explore the politics of slavery, race, and gender. Inspired by the tragedy that beset the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, Walker has created a volume exploring the interconnectedness of the subject of the sea, race, and poverty by juxtaposing examples of her work and historical works from the 19th century. This unique and important book capitalizes on Walker s deftness at graphic and visceral storytelling, affording the reader a deeply intimate experience of the difficult themes the artist explores.
About the Authors:
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California. She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. In 1997, she received the MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University.
Kara Walker is associate professor of visual arts at Columbia University.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: After the Deluge
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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Hardcover. A black and red casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in pink on a white spine. Pages: (6), 7-118, (1). Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. "After the deluge is a grandiloquent phrase that has been bandied about in the news and popular discourse since the floodwaters receded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Here the term has been appropriated by Kara Walker, a contemporary artist known for her satires of slave life in the antebellum south. This book is an attempt to vivify the empty spaces disasters (waterborne or otherwise) leave in their wake and examine the historical/mythological precedents for images of Water, 'the Africanist presence' (as Toni Morrison terms it in her seminal essay 'Playing in the dark') embodied in those images, and the shadow at that intersection where the real melts into fiction"--Jacket. "Here I have gathered images from the distant and relatively recent past. All of the historical paintings and my images and typewritten texts predate the recent hurricanes, tsunamis, and to some extent, the global concern over rising sea levels. Paintings are neat containers of ideas about the commonplace nature of disaster. The genre painters featured in this book bring to the surface a subjective mix of terror, wish fulfillment, and mundane observation that is sometimes lost in a photography-driven world. I created this book because I was tired of seeing news images of (Black) people suffering presented as though it were a fresh, new thrilling subject. I brought together the art in this book (and the exhibition that preceded it) thinking like a draughtsman, perhaps absurdly so, as even the typewritten texts are from an ongoing series of text pieces I think of as drawings. The book is a series of thoughts of or related tangentially to Hurricane Katrina, and floods to come. It is a rumination on a fear of the deep and the problem of the shallow--'skin deep.' The book is the result of thinking like a Black woman, perhaps absurdly so, because to be 'Black' in the context of the book means broad sweeps of types of representation: stereotypical, archetypal, Negro, African, the color of nighttime, the color of cut paper, the feeling of engulfment, the sense of humor, the style of outrage. This is a book of pictures, pictures of things which engage our pleasure centers." Contents are as follows: Murky -- Deep-rooted traditions -- Chocolate city -- Port of call -- Middle passages -- Savagery -- Sea -- The failure of containment -- Inundation -- Going under -- Darkness -- Black -- The whiteness of the wall -- Superdome -- Extraction -- Digestion -- Portents. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on title page. Stamp on copyright page. Sticker on back pasted end page. Seller Inventory # 203679
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Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'After the Deluge' is a grandiloquent phrase that has been bandied about in the news and popular discourse since the floodwaters receded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Here the term has been appropriated by artist Kara Walker,known for her satires of slave life in the antebellum south. This book attempts ot vivify the empty spaces disasters leave in their wake and examine the historical/mythological precedents for images of Waster, 'the Africanist presence'embodied in those images, and the shadow at that intersection where the real melts into fiction. 'Here I have gathered images from the distant & relatively recent past.' Juxtaposed to Walker's typewritten text, they sink inwardly deep. J was here. Seller Inventory # 294398
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Condition: Good. Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); White dust jacket with art illustration, and title in black and red lettering; 2007, Rizzoli Publishing; 120 pages; "Kara Walker: After the Deluge," by Kara Walker. Seller Inventory # SKU-0605AC01102052
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