{"product_id":"kara-walker-isbn-9780262544474","title":"Kara Walker","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker’s artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKara 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLorraine Morales Cox, Vanina Géré, Thelma Golden, Tavia Nyong’o, Yasmil Raymond, Jerry Saltz, Zadie Smith, Anne M. Wagner, Hamza WalkerSeries Preface vii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors xiii\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Vanina Géré xvii\u003cbr\u003eKara Walker: III-Will and Desire (1996) 1\u003cbr\u003eJerry Saltz\u003cbr\u003eCut It Out (1997)\/A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (2006) 17\u003cbr\u003eHamza Walker\u003cbr\u003eThelma Golden\/Kara Walker: A Dialogue (2001) 43\u003cbr\u003eThelma Golden\u003cbr\u003eKara Walker: \"The Black-White Relation\" (2003) 55\u003cbr\u003eAnne M. Wagner \u003cbr\u003eMaladies of Power: A Kara Walker Lexicon (2006) 81\u003cbr\u003eYasmil Raymond\u003cbr\u003eA Performative Turn: Kara Walker's \u003ci\u003eSong of the South (2005) \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) 129\u003cbr\u003eLorraine Morales Cox\u003cbr\u003eSubtleties of Resistance: Sweetness and Violence in Kara Walker's \u003ci\u003eA Subtlety \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) 163\u003cbr\u003eTavia Nyong'o\u003cbr\u003e\"Stories of Mortal Terror\": Kara Walker's \u003ci\u003eSix Miles from Springfield\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLucy of Pulaski (2009) \u003c\/i\u003e(2019) 177\u003cbr\u003eVanina Géré\u003cbr\u003eKara Walker: What Do We Want History to Do to Us? (2019) 205\u003cbr\u003eZadie Smith \u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names 227Vanina Géré is Professor of Art History and Theory at the Villa Arson National School of Fine Arts in Nice, France. She is the author of a monograph on Kara Walker, \u003ci\u003eLes mauvais sentiments: l’art de Kara Walker\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303529009381,"sku":"NP9780262544474","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544474.jpg?v=1767730630","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/kara-walker-isbn-9780262544474","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}