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Consuming stories : Kara Walker and the imagining of American race / Rebecca Peabody.
Author
Peabody, Rebecca
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
N6537.W239 P43 2016
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Race in art
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African Americans in art
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Silhouettes
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Installations (Art)
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United States
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Walker, Kara Elizabeth
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Themes, motives
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Summary note
"Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist's book, and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to exploring narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker's sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, neo-slave narrative, and children's fairy tales, and internationally-known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Walker's interruption of these familiar works, along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend on specific representations of race--especially as it is aligned with power, and desire. Breaking these implicit rules makes them visible - and, in turn, highlights viewers' reliance on them for narrative legibility. As this study reveals, Walker's engagement with narrative continues beyond her early silhouette work as she moves into media such as film, video, and sculpture--and when she works beyond the United States, using her tools and strategies to unsettle cultural histories abroad. Ultimately, Consuming Stories shifts the critical conversation around Walker away from the visual legacy of historical racism, and towards the present-day role of the entertainment industry--and its consumers--in processes of racialization."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Kara Walker, Storyteller
The end of Uncle Tom
The pop of racial violence
American romance in black and white
The international appeal of race
Storytelling in film and video
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780520288928 ((cloth ; : alkaline. paper))
0520288920 ((cloth ; : alkaline. paper))
9780520383333 ((paperback ; : alkaline. paper))
0520383338 ((paperback ; : alkaline. paper))
LCCN
2016020696
OCLC
945950275
Other standard number
40026661042
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