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The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts Kara Walker 1995 etching, aquatint on paper |
Kara Walker's art takes an irreverent, humorous, goulish, and all-around fantastical look at the underbelly of America's obsessions with race, sex, and violence. Her large black-and-white silhouettes draw from iconography ranging from the pre-Civil War period of America's south, historical romance novels, commercial culture, and slave narratives. Through a "collusion of fact and fiction," she creates a complex reading of history that is at once seductive and terrifying. At first glance, her work appears innocent in its fairytale-like rendering; a closer inspection, however, reveals its many perverse twists and outlandish situations.
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Dimensions:
installed 34.75 x 115.625 inches
Inscriptions: .4 - in pencil TL "Kara Walker 1995"; .2 - in pencil TL "18/20".2 - in pencil TC "A Means to an End".3 - in pencil TC "A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"workshop number in pencil on reverse BL of each print Edition: 18/20 Printer: Steven Campbell, Landfall Press, Inc. Publisher: Landfall Press, Inc., Chicago, IL Classification: Prints; Edition Prints/Proofs Physical Description: figures in silhouette in the Antebellum swampland, seems to tell a story read from left to right Owner: Walker Art Center Accession Number: 1996.84.1-.5 Credit Line: T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 1996 |