Research Catalog

Title

Kara Walker : a negress of noteworthy talent / a cura di Olga Gambari ; [testi, Richard Flood [and others].

Author

Walker, Kara Elizabeth

Publication

• Torino : Fondazione Merz, 2011.
• ©2011

Supplementary Content

TOC

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gambari, Olga
• Flood, Richard, 1943-
• Fondazione Merz

Alternative Title

Negress of noteworthy talent

Subject

• Walker, Kara Elizabeth > Exhibitions
• Walker, Kara Elizabeth > Interviews
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Race in art > Exhibitions
• Race awareness in art > Exhibitions
• Black author

Genre/Form

• interviews.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.
• Exhibitions.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, Mar. 25-July 3, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Italian and English.

Contents

Di ombre e di luce / Olga Gambari -- Pictures of you / Luca Morena -- Kara Walker : a negress of noteworthy talent -- Sii libero o muori : Kara Walker scrive la sua mitologia / Rebecca Walker -- Opere in mostra -- Works in the exhibition -- Silhouettes and stereotypes -- Conversazione : Richard Flood e Kara Walker -- La politica di razza, genere e la definizione mutevole di essere Americani / Melissa Harris-Perry -- Stereotipi nella mente e nel cervello / Jennifer Richeson -- Stereotipi delle silhouette : uno sguardo dalla Caverna di Platone / Roy Sorensen -- Cinema Massimo : carta bianca a Kara Walker -- Circolo dei Lettori.

Call Number

Sc D 23-994

ISBN

• 9788877572516
• 8877572515

OCLC

768397358

Author

Walker, Kara Elizabeth, artist.

Title

Kara Walker : a negress of noteworthy talent / a cura di Olga Gambari ; [testi, Richard Flood [and others].

Publisher

Torino : Fondazione Merz, 2011.

Copyright Date

©2011

Description

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary

"A Negress of Noteworthy Talent" documents a multimedia project developed by Kara Walker (born 1969) in Turin: her 2011 solo exhibition at the Fondazione Merz, a workshop for students from the Art Academy and University of Turin, an international conference on the politics and psychology of race stereotypes. The result is a defiantly unresolved exploration of the myth and memory of the African-American experience, an experience not fully collective or personal, but something uncomfortably in between, unfolding in a sinister and humorous shadowland of grotesque silhouettes and puppets. Walker's Turin project further explores the drama of race that is as much a drama of the unconscious as it is about skin.

Language

Italian and English.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Gambari, Olga, editor, curator.

Flood, Richard, 1943- writer of supplementary textual content.

Fondazione Merz.

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-994