Kara Walker : after the deluge
"After the deluge is a grandiloquent phrase that has been bandied about in the news and popular discourse since the floodwaters receded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Here the term has been appropriated by Kara Walker, a contemporary artist known for her satires of slave life in the antebellum south. This book is an attempt to vivify the empty spaces disasters (waterborne or otherwise) leave in their wake and examine the historical/mythological precedents for images of Water, 'the Africanist presence' (as Toni Morrison terms it in her seminal essay 'Playing in the dark') embodied in those images, and the shadow at that intersection where the real melts into fiction"--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Rizzoli, New York, 2007