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Title: Kara Walker: Pictures From Another Time by Kara Elizabeth Walker, Thelma Golden, Robert Reid-Pharr, Kara Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Annette Dixon ISBN: 1-891024-50-7 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm not an Art critic or Artist, & I never buy art books...
Comment: I'm just a regular Joe who doesn't even know that much about art (I never even had an undergraduate class in art appreciation or art history). I first saw Kara Walker's art on a PBS special and was so moved by her work and her methods, I purchased this book. The images in this book are more graphic, more arresting, and more provoking than the ones shown on TV. I opened this book as soon as I received it from Amazon, yet, I had to keep looking away at times because some of the compositions are so heartbreaking. As a minority myself, I don't think I suffer too much from white guilt about racial and historical prejudice, yet just the intensity of emotion and presentation of her juxtapositions are painful and exhilirating. "Genius" is a word I approach with skepticism because of it's over use these days (c'mon can Eminem REALLY be a genius?) but very often as I turned the pages in this collection and was stopped by images that begged contemplation, the word genius occurred to me over and over again.
I took off one star for the essays, NOT for Kara Walker's art. I doubt it, but maybe I will get around to reading the essays. They intrude upon the presentation of the work, at times, which is slightly annoying. I guess they help you put the artist's work into historical, aesthetic context blah, blah, blah. I'm sure the more educated appreciate the inclusions of the essays, but I think her works speaks loads by itself. Which, ideally, is how art should affect us (us="the great unwashed masses without any special knowledge"), isn't it?
Rating: 4
Summary: Pictures From Another Time
Comment: Upon its publication, this was the most complete volume on Kara Walker that I had come across. The essays are well written and informative, and delve deeper into various aspects of the artist's work than had previous reviews which often focus solely on the racial controversy of Walker's work. The interview with Thelma Golden provides some insight into possible future directions that Walker contemplates with her work. The images and color plates included in the book are of high quality and are representative of much of Walker's work, not only her installation at the University of Michigan.
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Title: Kara Walker : Narratives of a Negress by Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt ISBN: 026202540X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Lorna Simpson by Kellie Jones ISBN: 0714840386 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins ISBN: 0813530229 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation by Michael D. Harris, Moyo Okediji ISBN: 0807827606 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History by Kymberly N. Pinder ISBN: 0415927617 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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