Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 093564086X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. . He is the curator of Site Santa Fe (2004); his exhibitions also include international retrospectiveson Tony Smith, Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Ryman
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. 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. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subju
scarecrow said how do we read race. Kara Walker's work has many suggestions,social; ones where you need some "code" to interpret what you see, how can you come to see eyes like yours; what you see; we come to comprehend the montrous system of slavery that supported the USA for on-going decades; her approach utilization of the ante-bellum South with silhouttes often surreal imagery,with odd icon as Marcus Garvey running with an ax,Return?, Return!?We need liberation in any form;Walker's narrative is intentionally distanced,like the subject itself;as if race can only see. Brown Band Cover I probably would not have purchased this book if I knew what was under that brown band. But it was exactly what I needed to do research for my paper on Kara Walker. It's detailed and graphic.
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2/17/07-5/13/07Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2/17/08-5/11/08New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 11/11/07-2/3/07