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Kara Walker: Bureau of Refugees by Walker, Kara
by Walker, Kara | PB | VeryGood
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- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9788881586868
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Bureau of Refugees
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Charta
- Genre
- Art, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- American / African American, Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 8.5in
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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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 episodes in American race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are reduced and distorted into readily legible, caricatured forms. Walker's art continues, in other words, to pose awkward questions straightforwardly. Her imagery derives from the visual language of the antebellum South and the tradition of the minstrel show, which she directs to more disquieting ends. Where her source material parodied African-American culture with a terrifyingly casual jocularity--permitting white Americans to vicariously transgress their own taboos by depicting social chaos and unbridled sexuality--Walker applies that jocularity to her depictions of violence against African-Americans, lending them a hollow, almost slapstick character that is very much at odds with their original function. This latest book features work from a new series that addresses, among other themes, the atrocities committed against former slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Reconstruction program implemented by Congress between 1866 and 1877. These narratives are elaborated into or against geometric scenarios more abstract and compacted than previous sequences by Walker, and with a more extensive use of color.
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Publisher
Charta
ISBN-10
888158686x
ISBN-13
9788881586868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038607984
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bureau of Refugees
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Width
8.5in
Additional Product Features
Text by
Walker, Kara
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Yes
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