ART & ARTISTS: Kara Walker

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The Anti-Heroic in a Post Racial (Art) World, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire

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Kara Elizabeth Walker Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition. 01/01/2019, p1-1. 1p.

Walker, Kara Elizabeth,1969–, American artist, b. Stockton, Calif., grad. Atlanta College of Art (B.F.A., 1981), Rhode Island School of Design (M.F.A., 1994). 

Kara Walker: A DISSECTION FROM THE BOWELS ... TO THE BOSOM 

Grand Street. 01/09/1996, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p34. 10p. 8 Black and White Photographs.

Criticizes the paintings of artist, Kara Walker. Roots of Walker's popular themes; Resurrection and mutation of submerged history; Region of contradictions.

Kara Walker: Watched You Gape at Her The Subtlety Exhibit All Summer 

The contemporary artist was actually recording people as they, at times, took inappropriate pictures of the 75-foot sphinx made of sugar

THE CROSSING: By Walker, Kara, New Yorker. 13/02/2017, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p72-73. 2p. 

An image is presented of the painting "The Crossing," by artist Kara Walker, that references the inauguration of U.S. president Donald Trump and the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by...

The Artists Foreign Policy. 01/11/2014, Issue 209, p93-97. 5p.

The article discusses several painters, sculptors, and other artists who distinguished themselves during 2014.

Kara Walker. (cover story) ByKruger, Barbara. Time. 14/05/2007, Vol. 169 Issue 20, p131-131. 1/2p. 

The article profiles artist Kara Walker. Walker's work reflects such diverse subjects as power, sex, patriotism, and race in America. Her work often points out stereotypes in society.