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Author Walker, Kara Elizabeth.

Title Kara Walker : my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love / organized by Philippe Vergne ; with texts by Sander L. Gilman [and others].

Imprint Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, ©2007.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  700 W152k 2007    ---  Available
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Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Note Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minn., Minnesota, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, Nov. 11, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 17-May 11, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-406) and index.
Contents The Black Saint is the Sinner Lady / Philippe Vergne -- Confessions of an Academic Pornographer / Sander Gilman -- Triangular Trade: Coloring, Remarking, and Narrative in the Writings of Kara Walker / Kevin Young -- Primitivism in the Works of an Emancipated Negress / Thomas McEvilley -- Spooked / Robert Storr -- Visual Essay: Chronology of Black Suffering; images and notes, 1992/2007 / Kara Walker.
Artworks: You do -- The new Negro -- Untitled (Destroying the terror) -- Untitled (Emancipation Proclamation) -- Gone, an historical romance of a Civil War as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one young negress and her heart -- Untitled (Final solutinos) -- Untitled (Free northern girls) -- Untitled (The oppressor/oppressed paradigm) -- Untitled (Words too heavy for my head) -- Empire -- Dinah's dais -- White flight -- Battlefield at dusk -- Beacon -- By extension -- The dogs -- The future -- Gaining -- Interior scene -- Leap -- Little matchstick girl -- Ship -- Stealing -- Negress notes -- Before the battle (Chickin' dumplin') -- Letter from a black girl -- Allegory -- Br'er -- John Brown -- Phildelphia -- Negress notes (Brown follies) -- The end of Uncle Tom and the grand allegorical tableau of Eva in Heaven -- Do you like creme inyour coffee and chocolate in your milk? -- Slavery! Slavery! Presenting a grand and lifelike panoramic journey into picturesque Southern slavery or "life at Ol' Virginny's hole (sketches from Plantation Life) -- see the Peculiar institution as never before! all cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker an emancipated Negress and leader in her cause -- Cut -- A work on progress -- Emancipated, and on tour -- Mistress demanded a swift and dramatic empathetic reaction which we obliged her -- Ancestor -- The negro muse misses his mark (again) -- Big house -- Dawn of Ann -- Cot n'bale -- Cleanser -- Entrance to the Underground Railroad -- Familiar -- Flood -- Frederick Douglass distracted (the game is on) -- General defeat -- john Brown or big love -- Gettysburg battlefield -- Gettysburg battlefield II -- The invisible beauty -- Influence of the recent dead -- Land cave -- monument -- Beats me -- Night conjure -- A picture obviously pertaining to escape by any means -- preacher offers direction -- Revised trajectory -- Reivionist liberation -- 'scape -- Trilogy -- Straw pallet on floor, Stone Mountain, Georgia -- Endless conundrum, an African anonymous adventuress -- Two competing suns and the impostor -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- They say water represents the subconscious in dreams -- Darytown rebellion -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Drawing -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Excavated from the black heart of a negress -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Testimony: narrative of a negress burdened by good intentions -- 8 possible beginnings or: the creation of African-America a moving picture by Kara E. Walker.
Maladies of Power: A Kara Walker Lexicon/ Yasmil Raymond -- Thesis: Many Black women (Certain types) / Kara Walker -- Epilogue: Exhibition Checklist -- Selected Exhibition History -- Selected Bibliography -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Walker Art Center Board of Directors -- Reproduction credits -- Index.
Subject Walker, Kara Elizabeth -- Exhibitions.
Walker, Kara Elizabeth. (OCoLC)fst00415967
African Americans in art -- Exhibitions.
Race in art -- Exhibitions.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art -- Exhibitions.
African Americans in art. (OCoLC)fst00799722
Race in art. (OCoLC)fst01904405
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art. (OCoLC)fst01431524
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Vergne, Philippe.
Gilman, Sander L.
Walker Art Center.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Hammer Museum.
Added Title My complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love
ISBN 9780935640861 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
093564086X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

 
    
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