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СтатистикаA 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 –)
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Бентовиль, США)
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Об этом произведении
- Название: A Warm Summer Evening in 1863
- Художник: harry walker
- Год: 2008
- Размер оригинала: 175.0 x 248.0 cm
- Формат: Landscape
- Правовой статус: Объект авторского права
- Местонахождение: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- Динамика: Contemporary Art
- Эпоха: Contemporary
- Техника исполнения: Textile
Основные сведения
- Artist: Harry Walker
- Subject or theme: Civil War era violence and social history
- Dimensions: 175 x 248 cm
- Artistic style: Contemporary, figurative realism
- Title: A Warm Summer Evening in 1863
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