An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker, Jamaica Kincaid

ISBN 10: 0374608253 / ISBN 13: 9780374608255

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Inc, US, 2024

About this Item

In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors.There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children-inventive, surprising, and telling-about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374608253
• ISBN 13: 9780374608255
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Walker, Kara
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world. In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them. Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors. There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children―so inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.

About the Author

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River; Annie John; Lucy; The Autobiography of My Mother; My Brother; Mr. Potter; and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont. Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997 and an Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at Rutgers University since 2015. Her work can be found in museums throughout the world, including the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tate Gallery. She lives in New York.