Kara Walker
eBook - ePub

Kara Walker

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Kara Walker

About this book

Kara Walker's work and its borrowings from an iconography linked to the fantasized and travestied history of American chattel slavery has been theorized and critiqued in countless texts throughout her career. Critical interpretations of her work have been shaped by the numerous debates on the very discussions it generated. How, then, do we approach a work that has been covered by such "thick theoretical layers"? This collection is unique in emphasizing Walker's work itself rather than the controversies surrounding it. These essays and interviews survey Walker's artistic practice from her early works in the 1990s through her most recent ones, from her famous silhouette projects to her lesser-known drawings and lantern shows, stressing the full range and depth of her remarkable body of work.

The texts, by art historians, curators, critics, scholars, and writers engage scrupulously with Walker's pieces as material works of art, putting them in the context of the sociopolitical and cultural environments that shape—but never determine—them. They include an interview of the artist by Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem; an essay in the form of a lexicon, cataloguing key elements in Walker's art, by curator Yasmil Raymond; and an essay by volume editor Vanina Géré on Walker's use of historical archives. Finally, novelist Zadie Smith considers Walker's public art as counter-propositions to colonial monuments and as a reflection on colonial history.

Contributors

Lorraine Morales Cox, Vanina Géré, Thelma Golden, Tavia Nyong'o, Yasmil Raymond, Jerry Saltz, Zadie Smith, Anne M. Wagner, Hamza Walker

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Kara Walker by Vanina Géré, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,George Baker,George Baker,Leah Dickerman,Yve-Alain Bois in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Contemporary Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780262371728
Edition
0
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Contemporary Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. Jerry Saltz Kara Walker: Ill-Will and Desire (1996)
  8. Hamza Walker Cut It Out (1997)/A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (2006)
  9. Thelma Golden Thelma Golden/Kara Walker: A Dialogue (2001)
  10. Anne M. Wagner Kara Walker: “The Black-White Relation” (2003)
  11. Yasmil Raymond Maladies of Power: A Kara Walker Lexicon (2006)
  12. Lorraine Morales Cox A Performative Turn: Kara Walker’s Song of the South (2005) (2007)
  13. Tavia Nyong’o Subtleties of Resistance: Sweetness and Violence in Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2015)
  14. Vanina Géré “Stories of Mortal Terror”: Kara Walker’s Six Miles from Springfield and Lucy of Pulaski (2009) (2019)
  15. Zadie Smith Kara Walker: What Do We Want History to Do to Us? (2019)
  16. Index of Names