Kara Walker, the black artist who is known, loved and sometimes begrudged for making slavery-inspired silhouettes, hasn't said an awful lot in public about about her latest work, "A Subtlety: Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby." Instead, the giant Sphinx made of white sugar with the head and backside of a mammy and the brown babies fashioned out of unrefined sugar speak volumes."I don't really see it as just about race,"Walker told Audie Cornish at NPR in May. "I mean, I think that my work is about try...
Kara Walker's Sugar Sphinx Evokes Call From Black Women: 'We Are Here.'
The Huffington Post - 23 Jun 2014 23:34
Kara Walker, the black artist who is known, loved and sometimes begrudged for making slavery-inspired silhouettes, hasn't said an awful lot in public about about her latest work, "A Subtlety: Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby." Instead, the giant Sphinx made of white sugar with the head and backside of a mammy and the brown babies fashioned out of unrefined sugar speak volumes."I don't really see it as just about race,"Walker told Audie Cornish at NPR in May. "I mean, I think that my work is about try...
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