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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 arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue about the dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence in both the antebellum South and contemporary culture. Walker's work has been featured in exhibits around the world and in American museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. At the same time, her ideologically provocative images have drawn vociferous criticism from several senior African American artists, and a number of her pieces have been pulled from exhibits amid protests against their disturbing representations. Seeing the Unspeakable provides a sustained consideration of the controversial art of Kara Walker. Examining Walker's striking silhouettes, evocative gouache drawings, and dynamic prints, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw analyzes the inspiration for and elements 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.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině The arts Art treatments & subjects Individual artists, art monographs

• Plný název: Seeing the Unspeakable
• Podnázev: The Art of Kara Walker
• Autor: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 208
• EAN: 9780822333616
• ISBN: 0822333619
• ID: 04938009
• Nakladatelství: Duke University Press
• Hmotnost: 449 g
• Rozměry: 228 × 152 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 06. December 2004

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