Kara Walker : a black hole is everything a star longs to be : drawings 1992-2020 / Anita Haldemann (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Kara Elizabeth, artist, writer of supplementary textual content.

Haldemann, Anita, editor.

Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, host institution.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

De Pont Museum Tilburg, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Kara Elizabeth.

Silhouettes.

History.

Race in art.

Slavery in art.

United States.

Walker, Kara Elizabeth--Exhibitions.

African Americans in art--Exhibitions.

African Americans in art.

Black people in art--Exhibitions.

Black people in art.

Slavery in art--Exhibitions.

Race in art--Exhibitions.

Silhouettes--United States--History--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

598 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Black hole is everything a star longs to be : drawings 1992-2020

Place of Publication:

Geneva : JRP Editions, [2020]

Summary:

"A unique opportunity to encompass the celebrated and impacting universe of Kara Walker, this publication gathers together 600+ works on paper realized by the artist between 1992 and 2020--almost all of them being reproduced for the first time, as they come out from her until now zealously-guarded private archive. Renowned for her recent monumental installations, drawing on paper remains the foundation of Walker's creative practice, offering an air of spontaneity and unfiltered emotion which make this volume an unprecedented insight into Walker's world, influences, and topics. Many of her works on paper are executed with a brush, which lends them a flowing and open dynamic. Small sketches, studies, collages, and meticulously finished large-format works appear side by side with diaristic notes, typewritten reflections on index cards, and dream journals. The intimacy of each individual page contrasts with the stunning range of works. Flipping through this publication, the reader effectively becomes an eyewitness to the genesis of Walker's art, observing her as she enacts her thinking on the paper and adapts, invents, and transforms figures and narratives. Scrutinizing her own identity as an artist, an African-American, a woman, and a mother Walker probes both its personal dimension and its social implications in the context of current events. The latter aspect is prominent in four new sensational portraits that reflect on Barack Obama's presidency and lasting influence." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The Black (w)hole, and what it means to me / Kara Walker

Kara Walker's drawings : a dance of skepticism and faith / Anita Haldemann

The site of memory : Kara Walker drawing / Maurice Berger

A near-ideal Black body! On the metaphysics and materialist aesthetics of one Kara E. Walker's Black universe / Aria Dean.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland, June 5-September 19, 2021; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, October 15, 2021-January 16, 2022; De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands, February 19-July 24, 2022.

Title from page 553.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

ISBN:

9783037645574

3037645571

OCLC:

1237997218

Publisher Number:

9783037645574