Kara Walker : my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love / organized by Philippe Vergne ; with texts by Sander L. Gilman ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Kara Elizabeth.

Contributor:

Vergne, Philippe.

Gilman, Sander L.

Walker Art Center.

Whitney Museum of American Art

UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Kara Elizabeth--Exhibitions.

Walker, Kara Elizabeth.

African Americans in art--Exhibitions.

African Americans in art.

Race in art--Exhibitions.

Race in art.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art--Exhibitions.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

My complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, [2007]

Contents:

The Black saint is the sinner lady / Philippe Vergne

Confessions of an academic pornographer / Sander L. Gilman

Triangular trade : coloring, remarking, and narrative in the writings of Kara Walker / Kevin Young

Primitivism in the works of an emancipated negress / Thomas McEvilley

Spooked / Robert Storr

Chronology of Black suffering : images and notes, 1992-2007 / Kara Walker.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minn., Minnesota, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY , Nov. 11, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 17-May 11, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-406) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780935640861

093564086X

OCLC:

76074149