Seeing The Unspeakable - 9780822333968
Un libro in lingua di Shaw Gwendolyn Dubois edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2004
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Examining Walker's striking silhouettes, evocative gouache drawings, and dynamic prints, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw analyzes the inspiration for and reception of four of Walker's pieces: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven, John Brown, A Means to an End, and Cut. She offers an overview of Walker's life and career, and contextualizes her art within the history of African American visual culture and in relation to the work of contemporary artists including Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Michael Ray Charles. Shaw describes how Walker deliberately challenges viewers' sensibilities with radically de-sentimentalized images of slavery and racial stereotypes. This book reveals a powerful artist who is questioning, rather than accepting, the ideas and strategies of social responsibility that her parents' generation fought to establish during the civil rights era. By exploiting the racist icons of the past, Walker forces viewers to see the unspeakable aspects of America's racist past and conflicted present.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Seeing The Unspeakable
- Sottotitolo: The Art Of Kara Walker
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Shaw Gwendolyn Dubois
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '04
- Genere: ART
- Argomenti : African-Americans in art Slavery in art
- Pagine: 195
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0822333961
- EAN-13: 9780822333968