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Birth
1969 (Stockton, California)
Death
Lived/Active
New York
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silhouette figures, racial themed work
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Black American Artists
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Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall
texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in
what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of
controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical
black images in a confrontational way.
One of her prints tilted A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, was pulled from a
show in 1999 at the Detroit Institute of Arts because it was an
antebellum (showing 500 of 2335 characters). |
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