{"id":12,"date":"2021-01-23T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/?p=12"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:53:02","slug":"african-american-kara-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/2021\/01\/african-american-kara-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"African\/American, Kara Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969)\nAfrican\/American<\/em>, 1998\nLinoleum cut on paper\nMiami University Art Museum purchase through the Commemorative Fund and by Jeffery L. Horrell, \u201875 and Rodney F. Rose\n2004.6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kara Walker is known for her tableaux of silhouetted bodies
\nthat critique stereotypical Antebellum-era representations of
\nrace, gender and sexuality. African\/American presents a woman
\nfloating in space, on display, yet confined to the limits of the
\nframe. Referencing the frequent objectification and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eroticization of the Black female body, the silhouette\u2019s one-
\ndimensionality rejects the male gaze by denying the tactility<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and detail of the flesh. Walker provides the viewer with visual
\ncues such as twisted hair, beads, and a raffia skirt. She indicates
\nno specific heritage, thus exposing the viewer\u2019s reliance on
\nracial stereotypes to categorize and interpret the image. The
\nintentionally ambiguous figure at the center of African\/
\nAmerican reveals the power of socially constructed ideas of
\ngender and race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) African\/American, 1998 Linoleum cut on paper Miami University Art Museum purchase through the Commemorative Fund and by Jeffery L. Horrell, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2347,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodiesandexpectations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}