Kara Walker
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310211614
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126558
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130681
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132059
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320189187
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  alternate name: Slavery in art
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  alternate name: Themes, motives
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  alternate name: African Americans in art
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  alternate name: Race in art
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  alternate name: Black people in art
abstract: In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show later that year at the Kunstverein Hannover. Because these essays have not been distributed in the US and remain among the most in-depth and essential investigations of her work, Karma is now republishing them in this new clothbound volume. Among the most celebrated artists of the past three decades, with over 93 solo exhibitions to her credit, including a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker is known for her tough, critical, provocative and highly imaginative representations of African Americans and whites reaching back to antebellum times. In his analysis, Hobbs looks at the five main sources of her art: blackface Americana, Harlequin romances, Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, Stone Mountain's racist tourist attraction and the minstrel tradition.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31051474
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Introduction -- Kara Walker's Slavery! Slavery! -- White Shadows in Blackface.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301329475

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