Description: Consuming Stories by Rebecca Peabody Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. This book also explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walkers production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Publisher Description In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artists book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walkers production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walkers sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Toms Cabin. Walkers interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend on specific representations of race, especially when aligned with power and desire. Breaking these implicit rules makes them visible—and, in turn, highlights viewers reliance on them for narrative legibility. As this study reveals, Walkers engagement with narrative continues beyond her early silhouette work as she moves into media such as film, video, and sculpture. Peabody also shows how Walker uses her tools and strategies to unsettle cultural histories abroad when she works outside the United States. These stories, Peabody reminds us, not only change the way people remember history but also shape the entertainment industry. Ultimately, Consuming Stories shifts the critical conversation away from the visual legacy of historical racism toward the present-day role of the entertainment industry—and its consumers—in processes of racialization. Author Biography Rebecca Peabody is Head of Research Projects and Programs at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She is coeditor of Lawrence Alloway, Critic and Curator and Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 and editor of Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture,1945-1975. In addition, her essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and journals. Details ISBN 0520288920 ISBN-13 9780520288928 Title Consuming Stories Author Rebecca Peabody Format Hardcover Year 2016 Pages 216 Publisher University of California Press GE_Item_ID:161740332; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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Book Title: Consuming Stories : Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Sculpture & Installation, American / African American, History / Contemporary (1945-), General, African American, Subjects & Themes / General
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Genre: Art, History
Item Weight: 26.5 Oz
Item Length: 1 in
Author: Rebecca Peabody
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Hardcover
