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the silhouettes of people and animals are on display

Kara Walker. Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. 1994. Paper. Overall 13 x 50' (396.2 x 1524 cm). Gift of The Speyer Family Foundation in honor of Marie-Josée Kravis. 462.2007. © 2025 Kara Walker. Painting & Sculpture

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silhouettes of people and animals on a white wall

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.

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a black and white silhouette of a woman on fire

Figure 2. Kara Walker, Burn, 1998. Cut paper on wall. 92 x 48 inches (233.7 x 121.9 cm) © Kara Walker, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. - "Disgust in Silhouette: Toni Morrison, Kara Walker, and the Aesthetics of Violence"

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the silhouettes of two women and a child are shown in black against a white background

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