Kara Walker
Subtitle: Bureau of refugees.
Contributors: Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Publisher: Charta
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9788881586868
Subjects: Walker, Kara Elizabeth -- Exhibitions; Slavery in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Bureau of refugees.
Description: "This book features the works from the new series "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - Records, 'Miscellaneous Papers' National Archives M809 Roll 23," named after the historical record that documents, among other things, atrocities against freed blacks during Reconstruction. These small, economically rendered cutouts reflect on the sad, repetitive nature of racist atrocities, as well as art's tenuous relationship with the real world of political injustice. Also included are paintings with collaged elements and Kara Walker's signature silhouettes, and a multipart work consisting solely of handwritten texts in which the artist meditates on the "perpetrator" as well as willing and unwilling victims of circumstances."--book jacket.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, Oct. 20-Nov. 21, 2007.