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Kara Walker, my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love, organized by Philippe Vergne ; with texts by Sander L. Gilman ... [et al.]

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-406) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Kara Walker

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organized by Philippe Vergne ; with texts by Sander L. Gilman ... [et al.]

my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love

The Black Saint is the Sinner Lady/ Philippe Vergne -- Confessions of an Academic Pornographer/ Sander Gilman -- Triangular Trade: Coloring, Remarking, and Narrative in the Writings of Kara Walker/ Kevin Young -- Primitivism in the Works of an Emancipated Negress/ Thomas McEvilley -- Spooked/ Robert Storr -- Visual Essay: Chronology of Black Suffering; images and notes, 1992/2007 by Kara WalkerArtworks: You do -- The new Negro -- Untitled (Destroying the terror) -- Untitled (Emancipation Proclamation) -- Gone, an historical romance of a Civil War as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one young negress and her heart -- Untitled (Final solutinos) -- Untitled (Free northern girls ) -- Untitled (The oppressor/oppressed paradigm) -- Untitled (Words too heavy for my head) -- Empire -- Dinah's dais -- White flight -- Battlefield at dusk -- Beacon -- By extension -- The dogs -- The future -- Gaining -- Interior scene -- Leap -- Little matchstick girl -- Ship -- Stealing -- Negress notes -- Before the battle (Chickin' dumplin') -- Letter from a black girl -- Allegory -- Br'er -- John Brown -- Phildelphia -- Negress notes (Brown follies) -- The end of Uncle Tom and the grand allegorical tableau of Eva in Heaven -- Do you like creme inyour coffee and chocolate in your milk? -- Slavery! Slavery! Presenting a grand and lifelike panoramic journey into picturesque Southern slavery or "life at Ol' Virginny's hole (sketches from Plantation Life) -- see the Peculiar institution as never before! all cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker an emancipated Negress and leader in her cause -- Cut -- A work on progress -- Emancipated, and on tour -- Mistress demanded a swift and dramatic empathetic reaction which we obliged her -- Ancestor -- The negro muse misses his mark (again) -- Big house -- Dawn of Ann -- Cot n'bale -- Cleanser -- Entrance to the Underground Railroad -- Familiar -- Flood -- Frederick Douglass distracted (the game is on) -- General defeat -- john Brown or big love -- Gettysburg battlefield -- Gettysburg battlefield II -- The invisible beauty -- Influence of the recent dead -- Land cave -- monument -- Beats me -- Night conjure -- A picture obviously pertaining to escape by any means -- preacher offers direction -- Revised trajectory -- Reivionist liberation -- 'scape -- Trilogy -- Straw pallet on floor, Stone Mountain, Georgia -- Endless conundrum, an African anonymous adventuress -- Two competing suns and the impostor -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- They say water represents the subconscious in dreams -- Darytown rebellion -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Drawing -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Excavated from the black heart of a negress -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Testimony: narrative of a negress burdened by good intentions -- 8 possible beginnings or: the creation of African-America a moving picture by Kara E. WalkerMaladies of Power: A Kara Walker Lexicon/ Yasmil Raymond -- Thesis: Many Black women (Certain types) / Kara Walker -- Epilogue: Exhibition Checklist -- Selected Exhibition History -- Selected Bibliography -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Walker Art Center Board of Directors -- Reproduction credits -- Index

My complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love