The Hunt, Kara Walker; Landfall Press; Steve Campbell

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Kara Walker; Landfall Press; Steve Campbell, The Hunt
Kara Walker; Landfall Press; Steve Campbell, The Hunt
Kara Walker , Steve Campbell
The Hunt
1995
Kara Walker, artist
born 1969
Steve Campbell, printer
The Hunt, 1995
Portfolio/Series title: The Means to an End…A Shadow Drama in Five Acts
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 895 x 591 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 35 1/4 x 23 1/4 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 36 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 in
Credit line: Gift of Ann Jeffries Thompson in memory of Robert Raymond Smith (class of '78)
Accession number: 1997.0344.02
On display: Long Ellis Gallery
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Exhibition Label: "Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper," Jun-2001, Stephen Goddard Kara Walker turned to the silhouette as a means of expression because, in her words, she was looking for a clean and easy way to bring together a bunch of messy ideas that were troubling her. Her images force us to confront an especially unsavory aspect of our heritage-racial stereotypes. She explains, “I want the viewer to be really compelled to look, to have this question mark: Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing? Which means you have to keep looking, which you may not want to do.”