Kara Walker
Book description
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…
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Warning: This book will shock, intrigue, sadden, disturb, and ultimately stimulate you. This African American artist has produced an impressive and unique body of artwork that interrogates the conflicted nature of race in America.
This book provides a survey of her visually stunning work, including her controversial silhouette cut-outs that depict various charged images that draw on stereotypes to challenge and rework them. With shadowy figures that hint simultaneously at sexuality, subjugation, violence, and desire, this fascinating volume is not for the faint of heart or the easily disturbed.
From Erik's list on staring into the shadows.
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