Research Catalog

Title

The ecstasy of St. Kara.

Author

Walker, Kara Elizabeth

Publication

• Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2016]
• New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Tracy K.
• Griswold, William
• Thüring, Reto
• Rutland, Beau
• Lansdowne, John (Art historian)
• Cleveland Museum of Art, issuing body, host institution

Description

62 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

"Kara Walker's work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker's newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence following her massive public art project, A Subtlety, in Brooklyn. Influenced in part by the artist's recent residency at the American Academy in Rome, this series of drawings is an extensive examination of how Walker envisions the rise and fall of society. Richly illustrated, this publication includes plates of each drawing, as well as intimate photographs of the artist at work taken by her partner, acclaimed artist and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos. An introduction by Reto Thüring and Beau Rutland contextualizes the importance of this latest evolution within Walker's oeuvre; John Lansdowne addresses the topic of Christian iconography and its relationship to Walker's new drawings; and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith contributes a new poem. In addition, a text by Walker considers her work within the recent political climate." -- Publisher's description

Alternative Title

Ecstasy of St. Kara, Kara Walker, new work.

Subjects

• Slavery in art
• Walker, Kara Elizabeth
• Slavery in art > Exhibitions
• Race in art > Exhibitions
• African American artists > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• African American art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Walker, Kara Elizabeth > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition titled "The Ecstasy of St. Kara, Kara Walker, New Work" held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, September 10-December 31, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Ghazal / Tracy K. Smith -- Foreword / William M. Griswold -- Introduction / Reto Thüring & Beau Rutland -- Assassination by proxy / Kara Walker -- Kara's dust / John Lansdowne -- Checklist of the exhibition -- CMA Board of Trustees.

Call Number

Sc G 17-81

ISBN

• 9780300227154
• 0300227159

LCCN

2016947692

OCLC

959417933

Author

Walker, Kara Elizabeth, author, artist.

Title

The ecstasy of St. Kara.

Publisher

Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2016]

Distributor

New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Drawings. Selections.

Smith, Tracy K., writer of supplementary texual content.

Griswold, William, writer of foreword.

Thüring, Reto, writer of introduction.

Rutland, Beau, writer of introduction.

Lansdowne, John (Art historian), writer of supplementary texual content.

Cleveland Museum of Art, issuing body, host institution.

Added Title

Ecstasy of St. Kara, Kara Walker, new work.

Research Call Number

Sc G 17-81