Kara Walker: Deutsche Bank Collection - Hardcover

Walker, Kara

9783935293297: Kara Walker: Deutsche Bank Collection

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3935293291 ISBN 13: 9783935293297

Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc, 2003

What from far may seem a charming fairytale illustration or a blown-up version of the 18th-century silhouette, is in fact much darker and deeper. Kara Walker's oeuvre of black cut-paper silhouette wallworks creates vivid and shocking evocations, rooted in the most egregious stereotypes, of an antebellum world that comments on the system of slavery and its continuing legacy in the American consciousness. Arguably the most controversial young African-American artist working today, Walker explores issues of personal identity, racism, and social injustice, forcing the viewer to confront stereotypes that are often ignored, confirmed anew, and reinforced. This volume includes a selection of her silhouette works--on both black and grey walls, and with light projections--and drawings.

Essays by Edna Moshenson and Marion Ackermann.
Foreword by Dr. Ariane Grigoteit and Friedhelm H�tte.

Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.75 in.,59 color, 9 b/w illustrations

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About the Author:

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at such venues as the 25th Biennale S�o Paolo, Kunstverein Hannover, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Renaissance Society, Chicago. In 1997, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Walker lives and works in New York, where she is a professor at Columbia University.

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