Walker, Kara - Narratives of a Negress (Second Edition)

Kara Walker.  Narratives of a Negress, Second Edition.  New York: Rizzoli, 2007.  Hardcover.  208 pages. Very good.  Dust jacket has small circular closed tear front bottom right  and unobtrusive staining at top left of front flap.  Neat, clean nice copy.  Kara Walker (b. 1969) has emerged as one of her generation's most important artists. Best known for her provocative black paper cutout silhouettes, she confronts stereotypes, sex, violence, and power relationships through Civil War-era parodies, narratives, and a mastery of craft and installation.This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Williams College Museum of Art, presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work, beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994). Other highlights include the 1996 series of twenty-f