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White people love black art until it forces them to see or engage black pain beyond caricatures and stereotypes. To avoid confronting black pain, white audiences turn to white artists who appropriate black art without substance.
thecrimson.com • DAMN. And the Consumption of Black Art
historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children... See more
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Kara Walker is vooral bekend om haar openhartige onderzoek naar ras, gender, seksualiteit en geweld, aan de hand van silhouetten van figuren die te zien zijn op talloze tentoonstellingen over de hele wereld.