Kara Walker: Pictures from Another Time

Kara Walker: Pictures from Another Time

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Arguably the most controversial young African-American artist working today, Kara Walker creates vivid and shocking evocations, rooted in stereotypes, of an antebellum world that comments on the system of slavery and its continuing legacy in the American consciousness. In her choice of black cut-paper silhouettes, Walker takes a medium that was extremely fashionable in the...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published October 2nd 2002 by D.A.P./University of Michigan Museum of Art
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Owen
A wonderful compilation of Walker's signature body of work, in a lush large format.
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I want to read My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love...
Elizabeth
if you have not seen the work of kara walker, it is time.
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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love Kara Walker: After the Deluge I Miss My Pencil Kara Walker: Bureau Of Refugees Kara Walker: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, January 12-February 23, 1997

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