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Kara Walker (b.1969) is an African American artist who works across many medias, exp...
Kara Walker (b.1969) is an African American artist who works across many medias, exploring controversial themes of race, gender, sexuality, and violence. She is best known for her appropriation of the silhouette, which she has used in room-sized installations, sculptures, and smaller works on paper. Walker’s work illustrates and overlays racial stereotypes of the past and present; her work not only addresses slavery and racial discrimination in the antebellum South, but also raises awarene...
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