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Article: CUTTING THROUGH STEREOTYPES THE IMPACT OF KARA WALKER'S FIGURES IS ANYTHING BUT FLAT.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 15, 1997
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Kara Walker uses the old, genteel medium of cut black paper silhouette to depict a lurid panorama of ins and outs, comings and goings, penetrations and orifices, pleasure and pain.
In exploring images of race, sex and violence, the African American artist says, ``I kind of see myself dredging the muddy bottom of my mind for stereotypes and archetypes.''
We wouldn't care so much for Walker's personal mud, but in fact it comes from the same source of racial stereotypes that we still find in our culture, politics and prejudices. It is the stuff of interracial pornography, bad historical novels and cheap humor. ``Every time I enter a flea market,'' says ...