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KARA WALKER - VANINA GERE TASCHENBUCH

Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice  emphasizing the
work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it. 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.
Exegeses of her work have been shaped by the numerous debates on the very debates 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. 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

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