Kara Walker : a black hole is everything a star longs to be

Kara Walker American
 Publisher JRP/ Ringier
Editor Anita Haldemann

Not on view


Best known for her large scale tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker’s works on paper are the focus of this volume published on the occasion of a travelling exhibition held from June 2020-July 2022 at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and the De Pont Museum, Tilburg. More than 700 of Kara Walker’s works on paper created between 1992 and 2020 are reproduced in print for the first time from the artist’s private archive. The burlap soft-cover reproduces her striking cut paper silhouette, Untitiled.

Kara Walker : a black hole is everything a star longs to be, Kara Walker (American, born Stockton, California, 1969)

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