Cutting edge controversy

Provocative black artist Kara Walker displays her cutouts and watercolors on the walls of the Hammer Museum

“Slavery! Slavery! Presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery or “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)”
See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause,” 1997, Cut paper on wall, 12 X 85 ft.

(RIGHT) “Darkytown Rebellion,” 2001. Cut paper and projection on wall, 14 X 37 ft.

(LEFT) “Emancipated, and On Tour,” 2000. Cut paper and projection on wall, 9 X 11 in.

(RIGHT) “Cut,” 1998. Cut paper on wall, 88 X 54 in.

(LEFT) from “Negress Notes (Brown Follies),” 1996-1997. Watercolor on paper, 9 X 6 in.

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