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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Philippe Vergne, Sander Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr, Kevin Young, Yasmil Raymond
Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
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...
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Kara Walker: Bureau of Refugees
Kara Walker
Charta/Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Charta/Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
After the success of the recent touring exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love , Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent...
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Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Duke University Press
Duke University Press
One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually...
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Kara Walker: After the Deluge
Kara Walker
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
Since she first came to the attention of the art world nearly ten years ago, Kara Walker has become one of the most important artists of her generation. Championed by the art world for her fearless embrace of challenging subject matter, Walker has...
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Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress
Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
“This collection of Walker's astonishing tableaux dramatizes black-white interactions via horrifically accurate imaginings of one-on-one encounters–encounters that, in their microcosms of exploitation and mutual dependency, seem to speak directly to...
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Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
Michael D. Harris
The University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press
In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have...
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Laylah Ali: Typology
Alex Baker, Laylah Ali
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
While Laylah Ali's early work examined the moral and physical violence within and between groups, she has recently turned her attention toward the myriad ways identity is manifested--whether by clothing, hairstyle, body type, skin color or other...
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I Miss My Pencil
Kara Walker, Martin Bone, IDEO
Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books
Award-winning and world-renowned design firm IDEO uses a hallmarked process of first-hand observation and experimentation to inform and inspire its innovative work. Now, at long last, IDEO reveals these working methods for idea and product...
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Parkett #59
Yayoi Kusama, Kara Walker
Parkett
Parkett
Artwork by Yayoi Kusama, Kara Walker. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan.
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