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DiashowA Warm Summer Evening in 1863
Tapestry- Textile
- Contemporary Art
2008- Contemporary
175.0 x 248.0 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
In this tapestry, Kara Walker reproduces an etching from an 1863 issue of the newspaper Harper’s Weekly that documents the burning of a “colored orphan asylum.” Infuriated by newly imposed draft requirements during the Civil War, a mob of New Yorkers took to the streets, attacking both black and white innocents. To drive home the emotional reality of this atrocity, Walker superimposed the silhouette of a hanged black woman over this scene, a shocking image that grabs our attention.Walker’s silhouette of the hanged woman is an example of her ongoing interest in the traditional medium of cut-paper silhouettes. Before the widespread popularity of photography in early nineteenth-century America, paper cutouts of profiles served as a popular medium for portraiture. For the artist, this collision of popular prints and cutouts with the more elite tradition of woven tapestries creates tension: “I liked the irony of transferring this lowly craft into a medium once used for kings and princes,” Walker said.
Harry Walker (1947 –)
Entdecken Sie das faszinierende Werk von Harry Walker (geb. 1947), einem französischen Maler, bekannt für seinen 'Televisionismus' und einzigartige Interpretationen von Medien, Geschichte und sozialen Themen. Online entdecken!
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Entdecken Sie beeindruckende amerikanische Kunst im Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas! Kostenloser Eintritt, Führungen durch das Haus von Frank Lloyd Wright und atemberaubende Ozark Berglandschaften erwarten Sie.
Über dieses Kunstwerk
- Titel: A Warm Summer Evening in 1863
- Künstler: Harry Walker
- Jahr: 2008
- Originalmaße: 175.0 x 248.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Urheberrechtlich geschützt
- Ausstellung/Standort: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- Bewegung: Contemporary Art
- Epoche: Contemporary
- Technik: Textile
Eckdaten
- Year: 2008
- Artist: Harry Walker
- Subject or theme: Civil War era violence and social history
- Artistic style: Contemporary, figurative realism
- Title: A Warm Summer Evening in 1863
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